ABSTRACT
Infective endocarditis is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge that is associated with high patient morbidity and mortality (1). The diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis has changed dramatically over the past 40 years, in particular the use of echocardiography (2,3). Since the initial description of valvular vegetations by M Mode echocardiography in 1973 (4), this noninvasive imaging technique has assumed an increasingly important role in the evaluation of a patient with infective endocarditis.
