Aortic root abscess--echocardiographic image.
Autopsy findings point to a high prevalence of perivalvular abscesses in patients with infective endocarditis. Diagnosis of this complication, which may have therapeutical implications, is difficult. The authors present echocardiographic image obtained in a patient with bacterial endocarditis in whom an aortic root abscess was subsequently found at operation.
D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*