PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sternberg, L.
AU  - Sole, M. J.
AU  - Joza, P.
AU  - Scully, H. E.
TI  - Echocardiographic features of an unusual case of aortic valve endocarditis
DP  - 1976 Nov 20
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1022--1023
VI  - 115
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/115/10/1022.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/115/10/1022.full
SO  - CMAJ1976 Nov 20; 115
AB  - In a patient with aortic valve endocarditis a myocardial abscess, complete heart block and acute aortic regurgitation developed. Echocardiography gave evidence of large aortic valve vegetations, and at operation vegetations were found to have destroyed the right coronary cusp and part of the noncoronary cusp. Following surgery the patient recovered. Echocardiography may prove to be a useful noninvasive technique to aid in the timing of surgical therapy in patients with valvular vegetations.