Aortic coarctation endarteritis and aneurysm: diagnosis by transoesophageal echocardiography.
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.
Skinner
J R
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Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Bexton
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Wren
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D000293:Adolescent; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications*; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D004692:Endarteritis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000209:etiology*