Echocardiographic diagnosis of an aortic root abscess after mycobacterium fortuitum prosthetic valve endocarditis
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Cardiology
- Vol. 14 (3) , 273-275
- https://doi.org/10.1002/clc.4960140319
Abstract
A patient with an aortic root abscess complicating Mycobacterium fortuitum prosthetic endocarditis is described. The correct diagnosis had been made preoperatively by echocardiography and was confirmed subsequently at surgery.Keywords
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