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Left ventricular mural bacterial endocarditis: diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography
M M Shenoy1, M Kalakota, M Uddin
1Department of Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY 11235.
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
An unusual case of staphylococcal endocarditis with a vegetation attached to the left ventricular myocardium is described. No valvular vegetations are present. The diagnosis was made by transesophageal echocardiography. The patient had no chronic debilitating disease, nor was she immunosuppressed.