Monitoring
In addition to routine clinical care, patients with IE should be reviewed at least once a week by the IE team, with ad hoc multidisciplinary meetings as needed depending on the clinical situation.[50] Before completing antibiotic therapy, patients should receive transthoracic echocardiography to establish a new baseline. In addition, it is generally recommended that patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis undergo trans-oesophageal echocardiography at the completion of therapy. All patients should have blood cultures done at 1 and 2 weeks following therapy to ensure they are not persistently bacteraemic.[36]
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