[The diagnostic difficulties in a current course of infectious endocarditis]

The paper reports 152 cases of infectious endocarditis observed in two Moscow hospitals. Accurate diagnosis of the disease is complicated by frequent nosocomial endocarditis, endocarditis occurrence in aged patients the diagnosis in whom requires differentiation with tumors, lymphogranulomatosis, blood diseases, etc. To make the diagnosis easier, transesophageal echocardiography and comparison of clinical and echo-CG findings were practiced.