Echocardiographic diagnosis of an aortic root abscess after Mycobacterium fortuitum prosthetic valve endocarditis |
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| Authors: | W H Chow W H Leung Y T Tai W T Lee K L Cheung |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong. |
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| Abstract: | A patient with an aortic root abscess complicating Mycobacterium fortuitum prosthetic endocarditis is described. The correct diagnosis had been made preoperatively by echocardiography and was confirmed subsequently at surgery. |
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| Keywords: | echocardiography endocarditis Mycobacterium fortuitum aorta |
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