Serial two-dimensional echocardiography in infective endocarditis of the pulmonic valve
Lewin, R.F.; Sidi, Y.; Hermoni, Y.; Zafrir, N.; Dean, H.; Glazer, Y.; Pinkhas, J.; Agmon, J.
Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 19(1): 53-57
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-2180 PMID: 6832949 Document Number: 213523
Infective endocarditis was diagnosed in a 15-yr-old patient following closure of a patent ductus arteriosus several weeks previously. Pulmonic valve vegetations were detected by both M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiograms. The serial echocardiographic examinations revealed the emergence of a vegetation on the pulmonic valve, a marked decrease in its size subsequent to pulmonary embolism, reemergence of a vegetation upon relapse of the disease and its resolution 4 mo later. The echocardiographic findings and their correlation to the various stages of the disease are described.