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SUBMITTER: Shimotakahara J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281488 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of cardiology cases 20130515 1
We report a case of infective endocarditis complicated with left ventricular pseudoaneurysm originating from the posterior annulus of the prosthetic mitral valve in a 56-year-old woman. Despite prolonged antibiotic treatment, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) showed partial detachment of the prosthesis from the posterior mitral annulus. Three-dimensional rotational computed tomography clearly demonstrated a pseudoaneurysm toward the posterolateral portion of the mitral prosthetic valve, whi ...[more]