1. Cardiopulmonary manifestations of isolated pulmonary valve infective endocarditis demonstrated with cardiac CT
- Author
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Zekun Feng and Edward Passen
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Chest ct ,Heart Valve Diseases ,Transesophageal echocardiogram ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Endocarditis ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Pulmonary Valve ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Right sided endocarditis ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Infective endocarditis ,Pulmonary valve ,Cardiology ,Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency ,Transthoracic echocardiogram ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,Echocardiography, Transesophageal - Abstract
Right-sided infective endocarditis involving the pulmonary valve is rare. This pictorial essay discusses the use and findings of cardiac CT combined with delayed chest CT and noncontrast chest CT of pulmonary valve endocarditis. Cardiac CT is able to show the full spectrum of right-sided endocarditis cardiopulmonary features including manifestations that cannot be demonstrated by echocardiography.
- Published
- 2014