Real-time two-dimensional echocardiography is a valuable noninvasive tool for diagnosing flail aortic valve in bacterial endocarditis, potentially obviating the need for high-risk angiography.
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May support echocardiography for flail aortic valve diagnosis; leaves open routine avoidance of angiography pending validation.
This report describes a case with flail right and noncoronary cusps due to bacterial endocarditis, diagnosed with real-time two-dimensional echocardiography. Real-time two-dimensional phased array sector scanner demonstrated 2 cugdel-shaped lesions in the region of the left ventricular outflow tract through the aortic root, pendulating upward and downward floating along the blood stream. This study shows that the real-time two-dimensional echocardiography is a very useful noninvasive tool in the early diagnosis of flail aortic valve.
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