Open AccessEchocardiographic diagnosis of an aortic root abscess after mycobacterium fortuitum prosthetic valve endocarditis
Author(s) -
Chow W. H.,
Leung W. H.,
Tai Y. T.,
Cheung K. L.,
Lee W. T.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960140319
Subject(s) - medicine , endocarditis , aortic root , abscess , aortic valve , mycobacterium fortuitum , surgery , radiology , aorta , pathology , mycobacterium , tuberculosis
A patient with an aortic root abscess complicating Mycobacterium fortuitum prosthetic endocarditis is described. The correct diagnosis had been made preoperatively by echocardiography and was confirmed subsequently at surgery.