Should We Quantify Valvular Calcifications on Cardiac CT in Patients with Infective Endocarditis?

J Clin Med · 2021 · PMC8509527 · PMID 34640477

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Patients with high amount of valvular calcifications trended to present less frequently peripheral embolism in comparison to low calcified ones but the difference did not reach statistical significance (20.0% vs. 47.4%; p = 0.08).

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