Eustachian Valve Endocarditis: Echocardiographic Diagnosis in a Critical Care Patient

Eustachian valve endocarditis is rare. A literature review revealed that only 29 cases have been reported and, among them, there is only one mention of an intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We present an 82-year-old man without previous medical records who presented with septic shock with multiple...

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Autores principales: Alves, Mariana, Faria, Rita, Messias, António, Meneses-Oliveira, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5831989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29666712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5193976
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author Alves, Mariana
Faria, Rita
Messias, António
Meneses-Oliveira, Carlos
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Faria, Rita
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description Eustachian valve endocarditis is rare. A literature review revealed that only 29 cases have been reported and, among them, there is only one mention of an intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We present an 82-year-old man without previous medical records who presented with septic shock with multiple organ dysfunction. The patient was admitted to the ICU and deteriorated with combined shock (septic + cardiogenic). A second ultrasound screen detected a prominent Eustachian valve with mobile multilobulated vegetation attached. Transesophageal echocardiography confirmed a 12 mm oscillating mass attached to a visible Eustachian valve.
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spelling pubmed-58319892018-04-17 Eustachian Valve Endocarditis: Echocardiographic Diagnosis in a Critical Care Patient Alves, Mariana Faria, Rita Messias, António Meneses-Oliveira, Carlos Case Rep Crit Care Case Report Eustachian valve endocarditis is rare. A literature review revealed that only 29 cases have been reported and, among them, there is only one mention of an intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We present an 82-year-old man without previous medical records who presented with septic shock with multiple organ dysfunction. The patient was admitted to the ICU and deteriorated with combined shock (septic + cardiogenic). A second ultrasound screen detected a prominent Eustachian valve with mobile multilobulated vegetation attached. Transesophageal echocardiography confirmed a 12 mm oscillating mass attached to a visible Eustachian valve. Hindawi 2018-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5831989/ /pubmed/29666712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5193976 Text en Copyright © 2018 Mariana Alves et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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