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Fig. 1 | Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Fig. 1

From: Value of cardiac computed tomography angiography in pre-operative assessment of infective endocarditis

Fig. 1

A 43-year-old man with a mechanical aortic valve. An aortic valve view (a) and cinematic reconstruction image (b) of cardiac CTA showing multiple paravalvular pseudoaneurysms (arrows). Noted the left anterior descending artery was located just above the pseudoaneurysm which demonstrated clearly by cardiac CTA. The pseudoaneurysm could not be detected on TTE due to the shadowing of the mechanical aortic valve

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