UNUSUAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS OF MYOCARDITIS MIMICKING AN AORTIC RUN-OFF LESION

Suppurative bacterial myocarditis: echocardiographic and pathological findings.

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Echocardiographic findings in fulminant and acute myocarditis.

OBJECTIVES We sought to use echocardiography to assess the presentation and potential for recovery of left ventricular (LV) function of patients with fulminant myocarditis compared with those with acute myocarditis. BACKGROUND The clinical course of patients with myocarditis remains poorly defined. We have previously proposed a classification that provides prognostic information in myocarditi...

Unusual echocardiographic appearance of traumatic aortic dissection.

Unusual Case of Overt Aortic Dissection Mimicking Aortic Intramural Hematoma

We report an interesting case in which overt aortic dissection mimicked two episodes of aortic intramural hematoma (IMH) (Stanford A, DeBakey I). This took place over the course of four days and had a major influence on the surgical treatment strategy. The first episode of IMH regressed completely within 15 hours after it was clinically diagnosed and verified using imaging techniques. The recur...

Echocardiographic findings in discrete subvalvular aortic stenosis.

Echographic features of three patients with discrete subvalvular aortic stenosis are presented. These include a narrowed area of the left ventricular outflow tract just below the aortic valve cusps in all cases. A high-intensity but thin echo was seen in the high left ventricular outflow tract at the level of the mitral annulus in one patient with a subaortic diaphragm. In one of the three pati...