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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(1):50-51; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2006.08.012
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2006. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Right-sided vegetation unmasks aortic endocarditis

Gregoire Girod*, Frank Renders and Andres Jaussi

Service de Cardiologie, CHU Vaudois, Rte du Bugnon 46, Lausanne 1010, Switzerland

Received 13 March 2006; accepted after revision 20 August 2006; online publish-ahead-of-print 20 October 2006.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +41 21 314 0479. E-mail address: gregoire.girod{at}chuv.ch


  Abstract

Echocardiography is a key tool in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Although transthoracic echocardiography is the first step in the work-up, transoesophageal echocardiography is mandatory for the evaluation of the exact extent of the infectious process. Indeed, perivalvular abscess can fistulate towards different heart chambers, leading sometimes to critical clinical situations.

Keywords: Endocarditis; Echocardiography; Aortic valve; Bicuspid valve; Fistula


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