title: Live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic assessment of mycotic pseudoaneurysm involving the descending thoracic aorta.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajdev
authors.forename: Navin C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Anurag
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Pridhvi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yelamanchili
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: Farhat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mehmood
mesh_terms: 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