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An eight-year-old boy with supravalvular pulmonic stenosis, supravalvular aortic stenosis, and ventricular septal defect developedStaphylococcus aureus endocarditis. The infection was complicated by formation of a false aneurysm of the right ventricular outflow tract, which was demonstrated by contrast echocardiogram. Surgical treatment was successful. This is a unique case of false aneurysm of the outflow tract of the right ventricle, because it is secondary to endocarditis without known previous trauma to the right ventricular wall.
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Garty, BZ., Berant, M., Weinhouse, E. et al. False aneurysm of the right ventricle due to endocarditis in a child. Pediatr Cardiol 8, 275–277 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02427542
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