Table 8.
TEE transesophageal echocardiograph
aHACEK organisms are a group of Gram-negative pathogens that share an enhanced capacity to produce endocardial infections: Haemophilus species (H. parainfluenzae, H. aphrophilus, H. paraphrophilus), Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella species