Eustachian valve endocarditis: Detection with multiplane transesophageal echocardiography | Zendy

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Eustachian valve endocarditis: Detection with multiplane transesophageal echocardiography

Author(s) -

Palakodeti Vachaspathi,

Keen William D.,

Rickman Leland S.,

Blanchard Daniel G.

Publication year - 1997

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.4960200613

Subject(s) - medicine , endocarditis , bacteremia , cardiology , infective endocarditis , intravenous drug , radiology , antibiotics , virus , virology , viral disease , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Right‐sided involvement is fairly common in infective endocarditis, but involvement of the eustachian valve is distinctly rare. We present the case of a 36‐year‐old intravenous drug user with staphylococcal bacteremia and septic pulmonary emboli. Transthoracic echocardiography was normal, but transesophageal echocardiography revealed a large eustachian valve vegetation. This case illustrates the utility of multiplane transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of eustachian valve pathology.

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