65 - Optimizing the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis

Speaker(s)

• XD

  Xavier Duval

  AP-HP, Bichat Hospital

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
• 

  Pierre Tattevin

  Head
  ID unit, Rennes Univ. Hosp., France

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
• CW

  Chris Woods, M.D.

  Professor
  Duke University School of Medicine
  Durham, North Carolina

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Learning Objectives:

• discuss the use of nuclear medicine in the treatment of infective endocarditis
• describe how to organize an endocarditis team
• discuss the use of microbiological diagnostics of infective endocarditis

Presentations:

• 9:30am – 11:00am EDT

  Advances in Nuclear Medicine
  Xavier Duval – AP-HP, Bichat Hospital
• 9:30am – 11:00am EDT

  How to Organize an Endocarditis Team
  Pierre Tattevin – ID unit, Rennes Univ. Hosp., France
• 9:30am – 11:00am EDT

  Microbiological Diagnosis: From Blood Cultures to Molecular Biology
  Chris W. Woods, M.D. – Duke University School of Medicine