Prosthetic aortic valve abscess producing total right coronary artery occlusion: Diagnosis by transesophageal three-dimensional echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 395-398

  Horton, Carl J ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a   Nekkanti, Rajasekhar ^a   Mukhtar, Osman ^a   McGiffin, David ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Aortic valve prosthesis; Infective endocarditis; Right coronary artery obstruction; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HEART ABSCESS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ABSCESS; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036633318     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00395.x     Document Type: Article

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