Acoustic shadowing from the metallic components of aortic prosthesis
by Nanda Navin C

Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography

by Navin C Nanda
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This video clip showing two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. Upper arrowhead shows a large abscess cavity with septations surrounding the metallic prosthetic aortic valve. Lower arrowhead denotes acoustic shadowing from the metallic components of the prosthesis. (AVR: Aortic valve replacement; LA: Left atrium; RA: Right atrium; RV: Right ventricle).

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