Eustachian valve endocarditis: detection with multiplane transesophageal echocardiography
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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
V Palakodeti1, W D Keen, L S Rickman
1University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, USA.
Abstract:
Right-sided involvement is fairly common in infective endocarditis, but involvement of the eustachian valve is distinctly rare. We present the case of a 36-year-old intravenous drug user with staphylococcal bacteremia and septic pulmonary emboli. Transthoracic echocardiography was normal, but transesophageal echocardiography revealed a large eustachian valve vegetation. This case illustrates the utility of multiplane transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of eustachian valve pathology.
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