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TEE demonstrates mobile echodensity (red arrow) measuring 2.4 cm x 1.9 cm in the RA associated with the wall of the atrium at the site of the suspected defect (a). TEE demonstrates atrioventricular defect and a systolic left to right shunt suggestive of aortic root abscess and erosion into the RA (b).
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TEE showed aortic root thickening suggestive of abscess with associated structural defect, a mobile 2.4 cm x 1.9 cm echodensity projecting into the right atrium (RA) (Figure 1(a)), and left to right shunting (Figure 1(b)).