Key result
Echocardiography plays an important role in the assessment and diagnosis of pulmonary valve masses in patients with isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis.
Case Report (n=2)
Echocardiography plays a crucial role in diagnosing isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis, a rare condition that is often missed due to limited views and low index of suspicion.
Echocardiography may aid diagnosis of isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis; leaves open prospective validation in larger cohorts.
Endocarditis of only the pulmonary valve is a very rare finding and is often missed during echocardiographic evaluation due to limited views of the pulmonary valve and a low index of suspicion. We report 2 cases of pulmonary valve endocarditis (PVE), highlighting the importance of echocardiography in the assessment of the infected pulmonary valve. In addition, we review the published case reports of isolated PVE from 1979 to 2013 in order to study the role of echocardiography in the diagnosis of pulmonary valve masses.
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Chowdhury et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis (n=2). Echocardiography was evaluated on Diagnosis of pulmonary valve masses. Echocardiography plays an important role in the assessment and diagnosis of pulmonary valve masses in patients with isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis.
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