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Mitral and tricuspid annular endocarditis. Diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography
1Department of Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, SUNY-Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn.
Chest
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
Two cases of infective endocarditis with vegetations attached to the mitral and tricuspid annuli are described. In both cases, the vegetations could not be identified by transthoracic echocardiography. These cases illustrate the advantage of TEE over the transthoracic approach in recognizing vegetations in extravalvular locations.