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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kim HY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4452675 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Korean journal of anesthesiology 20150528 3
A 43-year-old woman was admitted due to fever, chills, and headache for several days and was diagnosed as infective endocarditis. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) examination confirmed severe aortic stenosis and showed relatively fresh 1.5 cm vegetation on the left coronary cusp of the aortic valve (AV) with frequent diastolic prolapse into the aortic root. This mobile vegetation partially occluded left coronary ostium, but it did not cause cardiac failure. TEE showed the ve ...[more]