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Prosthetic Aortic Valve Abscess Producing Total Right Coronary Artery Occlusion: Diagnosis by Transesophageal Three‐Dimensional Echocardiography
Author(s) -
Horton Carl J.,
Nanda Navin C.,
Nekkanti Rajasekhar,
Mukhtar Osman,
McGiffin David
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00395.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , right coronary artery , aortic valve , abscess , occlusion , radiology , surgery , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction
We present a patient with total right coronary artery occlusion produced by a prosthetic aortic valve abscess. The diagnosis was made by transesophageal three‐dimensional echocardiography.