Eustachian valve endocarditis: detection with multiplane transesophageal echocardiography.
Right-sided involvement is fairly common in infective endocarditis, but involvement of the eustachian valve is distinctly rare. We present the case of a 36-year-old intravenous drug user with staphylococcal bacteremia and septic pulmonary emboli. Transthoracic echocardiography was normal, but transesophageal echocardiography revealed a large eustachian valve vegetation. This case illustrates the utility of multiplane transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of eustachian valve pathology.
Palakodeti
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University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, USA.
Keen
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Rickman
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Blanchard
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DG
D000328:Adult; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications