Abstract
The diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) is established on the modified Duke’s criteria, including clinical presentation, laboratory findings and results of imaging modalities including echocardiography (1). Echocardiography is generally recommended as the first-line diagnostic imaging method and shows high diagnostic performance. Echocardiography, however, has several limitations in differentiating vegetation from thrombus or cardiac tumors, in cases of early stage IE and small vegetation. As recent This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Received: April 5, 2016 Revised: May 19, 2016 Accepted: May 20, 2016
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