Tumor Plop in a Febrile Child: Unusual Presentation of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis

Tricuspid valve endocarditis in a structurally normal heart of child is extremely rare and mysterious disease, which may mimic several other illnesses. We are reporting here a six-year-old child who presented with prolonged fever and unusual auscultatory sound of tumor plop, later proven to having t...

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Autores principales: Darbari, Anshuman, Singh, Devender
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28465912
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2211-4122.143979
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description Tricuspid valve endocarditis in a structurally normal heart of child is extremely rare and mysterious disease, which may mimic several other illnesses. We are reporting here a six-year-old child who presented with prolonged fever and unusual auscultatory sound of tumor plop, later proven to having tricuspid valve endocarditis by 2D echocardiography. The patient underwent surgical excision of the vegetations with repair of the tricuspid valve leaflets with successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-53534462017-05-02 Tumor Plop in a Febrile Child: Unusual Presentation of Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Darbari, Anshuman Singh, Devender J Cardiovasc Echogr Case Report Tricuspid valve endocarditis in a structurally normal heart of child is extremely rare and mysterious disease, which may mimic several other illnesses. We are reporting here a six-year-old child who presented with prolonged fever and unusual auscultatory sound of tumor plop, later proven to having tricuspid valve endocarditis by 2D echocardiography. The patient underwent surgical excision of the vegetations with repair of the tricuspid valve leaflets with successful outcome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC5353446/ /pubmed/28465912 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2211-4122.143979 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Journal of Cardiovascular Echography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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