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Abstract
Serial echocardiograms of a patient with enterococcal endocarditis and aortic insufficiency
suggested the presence of vegetations on the aortic valve with progression of the
lesion to frank prolapse of an aortic valve cusp. At surgery, the patient was found
to have a flail noncoronary cusp to which an 8 mm vegetation was adherent. Anatomic
correlations are presented, and a possible mechanism for the unusual echographic findings
is discussed.
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Publication history
Accepted:
February 11,
1976
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© 1977 Published by Elsevier Inc.
