학술논문
Tricuspid Endocarditis in A Drug Addict; Detection of Tricuspid Vegetations by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography
Document Type
Article
Source
Chest; October 1978, Vol. 74 Issue: 4 p473-475, 3p
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Language
ISSN
00123692; 19313543
Abstract
Endocarditis is an increasingly frequent complication of drug addiction. Precise localization of the site of involvement is necessary should antibiotic therapy fail and surgical therapy become indicated. This is a report of a patient with Pseudomonas endocarditis in whom the site of involvement was accurately localized noninvasively to the tricuspid valve by two-dimensional echocardiography. This was confirmed at the time of excision of the tricuspid valve.