Live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic assessment of mycotic pseudoaneurysm involving the descending thoracic aorta.
We describe a patient in whom a mycotic aneurysm involving the distal descending thoracic aorta could be definitively diagnosed by live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.
Rajdev
Sanjay
S
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Patel
Vinod
V
Singh
Anurag
A
Yelamanchili
Pridhvi
P
Duncan
Kurt
K
Mehmood
Farhat
F
D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male