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Echocardiographic “Eyewitness” of Aortic Valve Vegetation Detachment
Author(s) -
PEREIRA ROBERTO,
OLIVEIRA WILSON,
SÁ DEUZENY MARQUES,
COSTA MÁRIO GESTEIRA,
OLIVEIRA LUÍS FERNANDO SALAZAR
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1992.tb00451.x
Subject(s) - infective endocarditis , vegetation (pathology) , medicine , endocarditis , cardiology , aortic valve , embolization , surgery , pathology
Embolic phenomena are associated with endocarditis. We report a patient suffering from infective endocarditis, in which the exact moment of detachment of an aortic valve vegetation and subsequent embolization was eyewitnessed during two‐dimensional echocardiography, and the entire episode was recorded on video tape.