Infective endocarditis of main pulmonary artery in tetralogy of Fallot: "Transesophageal echocardiography adds lease of life"

Ann Card Anaesth. 2016 Jul-Sep;19(3):551-3. doi: 10.4103/0971-9784.185563.

Authors

Arin Choudhury¹, Jitin Narula², Pawan Kumar Jain¹, Poonam Malhotra Kapoor¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia, CTC, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
² Department of Cardiac Anesthesiology, Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

Infective endocarditis is a rare occurrence in the main pulmonary artery trunk and even rarer in tetralogy of Fallot.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Doppler
Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
Endocarditis, Bacterial / complications*
Endocarditis, Bacterial / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male
Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Artery / microbiology*
Tetralogy of Fallot / complications*
Tetralogy of Fallot / diagnostic imaging
Tetralogy of Fallot / surgery