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In recent years echocardiography has become the most important method for the diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis. Though identification of valve vegetations by M-mode echocardiography was rather limited, two dimensional echocardiography--especially with transoesophageal application--has a sensitivity of more than 90% and a specificity of 98%. In addition, echocardiography is able to supply valuable contributions for the evaluation of the patient's prognosis and in the identification of complications of infective endocarditis, such as: the extent of valve destruction, rupture of chordeae and other parts of the valves, as well as the presence of intramyocardial and paravalvular abscesses. In addition, the application of Doppler-echocardiography allows the semiquantitative evaluation of the degree of any valve insufficiency.
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