Multimodality Imaging-Guided Evaluation and Management of Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis Complicated by a Giant Peri-Aortic Abscess

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Apr;14(4):e011944. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.120.011944. Epub 2021 Apr 2.

Authors

Saberio Lo Presti¹, Shinya Unai², Reza Reyaldeen¹, Wael Jaber¹, Vidyasagar Kalahasti¹, Bo Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (S.L.P., R.R., W.J., V.K., B.X.), Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH.
² Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (S.U.), Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH.

PMID: 33794651
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.120.011944

No abstract available

Keywords: aortic abscess; echocardiography; endocarditis; positron emission tomography; prosthetic valve endocarditis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Abscess / complications*
Abscess / diagnosis
Abscess / etiology
Aged
Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve / microbiology*
Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods
Endocarditis, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Endocarditis, Bacterial / etiology
Heart Valve Prosthesis / adverse effects*
Humans
Male
Multimodal Imaging*
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography / methods
Prosthesis-Related Infections / diagnosis*
Prosthesis-Related Infections / etiology