Key result
Cardiac ultrasonography successfully identified a highly mobile, cord-like vegetation on the aortic valve, differentiating it from a flailing leaflet in a case of bacterial endocarditis.
Why the study?
Does cardiac ultrasonography help differentiate aortic valve leaflet flail from vegetations in endocarditis?
Population
1 patient with bacterial endocarditis and a highly mobile, cord-like vegetation attached to the noncoronary…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Echocardiography may differentiate vegetations from flail in endocarditis; leaves open need for prospective validation.
Case Report (n=1)
Does cardiac ultrasonography help differentiate aortic valve leaflet flail from vegetations in endocarditis?
Cardiac ultrasonography is a useful imaging modality for differentiating aortic valve leaflet flail from vegetations in patients with bacterial endocarditis.
Yoshikawa et al. (1976) conducted a case report in Bacterial endocarditis (n=1). Cardiac ultrasonography was evaluated. Cardiac ultrasonography successfully identified a highly mobile, cord-like vegetation on the aortic valve, differentiating it from a flailing leaflet in a case of bacterial endocarditis.
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