Cardiac Computarized Tomography in Infective Endocarditis (cardiac CT)

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Infective Endocarditis

Treatments: Device: Cardiac CT 0BRILLIANT 64

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00550823

362-07

Details and patient eligibility

About

The diagnosis of infective endocarditis is based on the results of blood culture and findings on transeosophageal echocardiography. Cardiac computarized tomography is a new modality, mainly used for the imaging of coronary arteries. Its use in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis is not well known.The purpose of this study is to establish the use of cardiac CT in infective endocarditis.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with infective endocarditis

Exclusion criteria

• Allergy to contrast agent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

A,1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Cardiac CT 0BRILLIANT 64