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Tricuspid Valve Aneurysm Formation in a Child with Suspected Endocarditis
Daniel E. Miga1, Karla B. Meyer, Derek A. Fyfe
1South Carolina Children's Heart Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425-0680.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Aneurysms of the aortic and mitral valve are a known complication of infective endocarditis in adults. We report an unusual case of tricuspid valve endocarditis in a child with resultant aneurysm formation as its presenting finding after a brief clinical course. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 13, January 1996)