Echocardiographic assessment of aneurysm of the aortic valve caused by infective endocarditis--a case report.
No aneurysm of the aortic valve associated with infective endocarditis has yet been reported. This report describes the clinical echocardiographic and pathologic findings in a patient who developed infective endocarditis resulting in aneurysm of the non-coronary cusp with aortic regurgitation. Surgical treatment was performed because of gradual expansion of the aneurysm and gradual thinning of its wall. Two-dimensional and color Doppler echocardiographies proved useful for the initial diagnosis and serial follow-up of this unusual case and for its successful surgical management.
Morimoto
K
K
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Japan.
Matsuzaki
M
M
Anno
Y
Y
Tanimoto
Y
Y
Kobayashi
Y
Y
Takashiba
K
K
Yamagishi
T
T
Kusukawa
R
R
D001021:Aortic Valve; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications*; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged