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Chest, Vol 85, 291-294, Copyright © 1984 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Failure of two-dimensional echocardiography to detect aspergillus endocarditis

SP Peterson, N Schiller and RB Stricker

Two-dimensional echocardiography has been shown to be a reliable diagnostic procedure in patients with valvular lesions due to fungal endocarditis. We describe a patient with four-chamber Aspergillus endocarditis localized to the nonvalvular endocardium. In this case, two-dimensional echocardiography failed to demonstrate cardiac abnormalities despite the presence of extensive endomyocardial disease at autopsy. The case emphasizes the diagnostic limitations of two- dimensional echocardiography in the absence of valvular vegetations.


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