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Echo cardio showing abscess on aortic valve.
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An urgent transthoracic echo showed a total mechanical aortic prosthesis dehiscence with 4/4 para-valvular regurgitation, abscess in the aortic valve, with low ejection fraction (34 %) and moderate to severe pulmonary hypertension (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).