An Aortic Root Abscess Presenting as a Suprasternal Pulsatile Mass

Prosthetic valve endocarditis with aortic root abscess is a serious condition requiring urgent surgical intervention. We present a case caused by an infected Bentall mechanical valve conduit after cardiac surgery in a patient who was referred for a suprasternal pulsatile mass. The patient also had 1...

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Autores principales: Raman, Karthik, Sheriff, Ejaz Ahmed, Jamesraj, Jacob, Kumar, Ram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236380
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2019.52.3.178
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description Prosthetic valve endocarditis with aortic root abscess is a serious condition requiring urgent surgical intervention. We present a case caused by an infected Bentall mechanical valve conduit after cardiac surgery in a patient who was referred for a suprasternal pulsatile mass. The patient also had 1 episode of sentinel haemorrhage.
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spelling pubmed-65591912019-06-24 An Aortic Root Abscess Presenting as a Suprasternal Pulsatile Mass Raman, Karthik Sheriff, Ejaz Ahmed Jamesraj, Jacob Kumar, Ram Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Prosthetic valve endocarditis with aortic root abscess is a serious condition requiring urgent surgical intervention. We present a case caused by an infected Bentall mechanical valve conduit after cardiac surgery in a patient who was referred for a suprasternal pulsatile mass. The patient also had 1 episode of sentinel haemorrhage. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2019-06 2019-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6559191/ /pubmed/31236380 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2019.52.3.178 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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