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Case Reports
. 2017 Sep;25(3):105-106.
doi: 10.4250/jcu.2017.25.3.105. Epub 2017 Sep 29.

Streptococcus sanguinis Endocarditis Involving All Valves in a Patient with Ventricular Septal Defect

Christos Zivlas  1 , Steve Ramcharitar  1 , Badrinathan Chandrasekaran  1
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Case Reports

Streptococcus sanguinis Endocarditis Involving All Valves in a Patient with Ventricular Septal Defect

Christos Zivlas et al. J Cardiovasc Ultrasound. 2017 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: Infective endocarditis; Streptococcus sanguinis; Transoesophageal echocardiography; Ventricular septal defect.

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Fig. 1. Infective endocarditis involving all valves and the VSD. Transoesophageal echocardiogram revealed vegetations on both anterior and posterior mitral valve leaflets (arrowheads) (A). Long axis view of the aortic valve detected a small vegetation on the non-coronary cusp (arrow) (B). Mid-oesophageal view (30–60°) of the tricuspid valve revealed a vegetation (arrowhead) (C). Mid-oesophageal view (45–60°) depicted a small vegetation on the pulmonary valve (arrowhead) (D). 3D-echocardiography of the VSD (arrowheads) and the vegetation associated with it (*) (E). 3D-echocardiography multiplane review of the vegetation associated with the VSD (F). Transoesophageal colour-compare mode that illustrates the jet from the VSD (*) that abuts the pulmonary valve (arrowhead) (G). VSD: ventricular septal defect.
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