Echocardiographic diagnosis of valvular vegetations. Study of a case
Alvarez del Puerto, H.; Sasse, L.; Stein, A.; Ruskin, J.
Archivos del Instituto de Cardiologia de Mexico 45(4): 512-517
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0020-3785 PMID: 1180612 Document Number: 85314
A case of a 23 year old patient with clinical manifestations of subacute bacterial endocarditis is presented, proven during the surgical treatment, in which it was possible to establish the diagnoses of a vegetation of the mitral valve through echocardiography. The echocardiographic changes produced by vegetations are analyzed and the technical defects which may lead to interpretation mistakes. It is concluded, that this non-ivasive method is of very usefull diagnozing the establishment of vegetations on the cardiac valves.