Simultaneous endocarditis involvement of native tricuspid and aortic valves

We experienced a case of ruptured aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva, and this resulted in simultaneous aortic and tricuspid valve endocarditis through a shunt. The echocardiography showed a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm to the right atrium with a shunt. The aortic non-coronary cusp was fibro-thickened with vegetation. Vegetations of the septal leaflet and the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve were also found. The blood culture grew Enterococcus garllinarum. We replaced both tricuspid and aortic valve with successful surgical result

Echocardiographic and Macroscopic Images Aortic Cusp Laceration

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Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: echocardiographic and intraoperative images.

A44-year-old hypertensive woman with fever for 1 week and a history of apical myocardial infarction (1 month before) was transferred to our institution with chest pain and dyspnea

Sorin stentless pericardial valve versus Carpentier-Edwards Perimount pericardial bioprosthesis: Is it worthwhile to struggle?

Abstract: We compared two bovine pericardium prostheses (Sorin Frecdom versus Carpentier-Edwards Perimount) in patients with small aortic annulus, randomizing 80 patients affected by prevalent aortic stenosis and studying the residual gradient, the effective orifice area, the left ventricular mass regression and the ventricular function to evaluate the cost-benefit in terms of risk-advantages for the patient. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved

Visualization of right atrial tumor mass with transesophageal echocardiography through nasal way (TEENW)

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Transesophageal echocardiography through nasal way as a guide to percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale

Percutaneous device closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) has become an effective and safe alternative to medical or surgery treatment. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), as commonly used to guide this procedure, has the limitation to require general anesthesia. Recently, intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) with AcuNav probe was used to guide percutaneous PFO closure. We report a 42 year-old man with two previous cryptogenetic strokes in whom both diagnosis and guidance of PFO closure were performed by means of TEE using the AcuNav catheter introduced through nasal way (TEENW). This technique, that does not require general anesthesia, provided adequate and complete view of the Amplatzer procedure. TEENW might offer a feasible and equivalent echocardiographic alternative either to standard TEE or ICE as a guide to percutaneous PFO closure