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- Title
A Distinctly Rare Case of Candida Endocarditis Involving the Bioprosthetic Pulmonary and the Eustachian Valve Diagnosed on 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography.
- Authors
Pasha, Ahmed K.; Snyder, Branden A.; Zangeneh, Tirdad T.; Thompson, Jess L.; Sobonya, Richard E.; Abidov, Aiden
- Abstract
We describe a unique case where a 53‐year‐old man with history of intravenous drug abuse and prior endocarditis presented with fever and chest pain. He was found to have a eustachian valve vegetation and bioprosthetic pulmonary valve vegetation. The causative organism was Candida albicans. In this case, three‐dimensional transesophageal echocardiography clearly identified the pulmonic valve vegetation which was not well seen on two‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of endocarditis; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; CANDIDA; CHEST pain; COMPUTED tomography; FEVER; PROSTHETIC heart valves; PULMONARY artery; REOPERATION; VENA cava inferior; INTRAVENOUS drug abusers
- Publication
Echocardiography, 2015, Vol 32, Issue 3, p607
- ISSN
0742-2822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/echo.12804