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Aortic coarctation endarteritis and aneurysm: diagnosis by transoesophageal echocardiography
J R Skinner1, R Bexton, C Wren
1Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
International Journal of Cardiology
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 17-year-old girl developed infective endarteritis, caused by Staphylococcus aureus, at the site of a previously undiagnosed aortic coarctation. Transoesophageal echocardiography revealed a clinically unsuspected false aneurysm. Foreknowledge of the presence of the aneurysm proved to be life saving when an acute deterioration required emergency surgery.