Skinner J R, Bexton R, Wren C
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Int J Cardiol. 1992 Feb;34(2):216-8. doi: 10.1016/0167-5273(92)90160-5.
A 17-year-old girl developed infective endarteritis, caused by Staphylococcus aureus, at the site of a previously undiagnosed aortic coarctation. Transoesophageal echocardiography revealed a clinically unsuspected false aneurysm. Foreknowledge of the presence of the aneurysm proved to be life saving when an acute deterioration required emergency surgery.
