{"id":30881,"date":"2020-04-10T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/?p=30881"},"modified":"2021-12-20T22:42:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:12:51","slug":"detection-of-vegetation-in-infective-endocarditis-mcq-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/detection-of-vegetation-in-infective-endocarditis-mcq-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis &#8211; MCQ &#8211; Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis &#8211; MCQ &#8211; Answer<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Best investigation for detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis \u2013 Correct answer: b) Trans esophageal echocardiography.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While transthoracic echocardiography can detect vegetations as small as 2-4 mm, transesophageal echocardiography can detect smaller vegetations in the range of 1-1.5 mm. MRI and CT are not routine investigations for detection of vegetations. Absence of vegetations does not exclude infective endocarditis. If clinical suspicion is high serial echocardiography and blood cultures are needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/detection-of-vegetation-in-infective-endocarditis-mcq\/\"><strong>Back to question<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis &#8211; MCQ &#8211; Answer Best investigation for detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis \u2013 Correct answer: b) Trans esophageal echocardiography. While transthoracic echocardiography can detect vegetations as small as 2-4 mm, transesophageal echocardiography can detect smaller vegetations in the range of 1-1.5 mm. MRI and CT are not routine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine-mcq-cvs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis - MCQ - Answer - All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/detection-of-vegetation-in-infective-endocarditis-mcq-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis - MCQ - Answer - All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis &#8211; MCQ &#8211; Answer Best investigation for detection of vegetation in infective endocarditis \u2013 Correct answer: b) Trans esophageal echocardiography. 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