Serial two-dimensional echocardiography in infective endocarditis of the pulmonic valve.
Infective endocarditis was diagnosed in a 15-yr-old patient following closure of a patent ductus arteriosus several weeks previously. Pulmonic valve vegetations were detected by both M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiograms. The serial echocardiographic examinations revealed the emergence of a vegetation on the pulmonic valve, a marked decrease in its size subsequent to pulmonary embolism, reemergence of a vegetation upon relapse of the disease and its resolution 4 mo later. The echocardiographic findings and their correlation to the various stages of the disease are described.
D000293:Adolescent; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000503:physiopathology*