Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 206-208, March 1996

Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of eustachian valve endocarditis

  • Ray Georgeson, MD
    • ,
  • Meizhen Liu, MD
    • ,
  • Ramesh C. Bansal, MD (FACC)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Ramesh C. Bansal, MD, FACC, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Loma Linda University Medical Center, Fourth Floor, Room 4420, 11234 Anderson St., Loma Linda, CA 92350.

From the Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Loma Linda University Medical Center. Loma Linda, California, USA

Abstract 

A 33-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug abuse was seen with fever, septic pulmonary embolization, and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Transthoradic echocardiography was nondiagnostic. Transesophageal echocardiography showed a large, pedunculated, and highly mobile vegetation attached to the eustachian valve.

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PII: S0894-7317(96)90032-2

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 206-208, March 1996

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