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Transesophageal echocardiography showing large vegetation filled the entire lumen of the visualized portion of the superior vena cava.
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TEE showed an increase of the vegetation that now filled the entire lumen of the superior vena cava, protruded into the right atrium cavity and reached the atrial face of the tricuspid valve (Fig. 1). The latter appeared to be preserved.
Pictures of the heart surgery with inflow-occlusion technique. Inflow occlusion interrupts the cardiac filling making the field bloodless allowing the surgeon to do the required procedure. A- vegetation B- superior vena cava.
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The procedure was done with an inflow-occlusion technique and was successful with no complications (Fig. 2).