The latest issue of CASE is now available with intriguing reports,
including “Aortic Valve Vegetation due to Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis in a Patient with Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome.” CASE Editor-in-Chief Vincent Sorrell, MD, FASE, remarked, “In this very well-described CASE from Bahar et al., the authors highlight a unique presentation of an AV vegetation due to NBTE in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. This patient had a cerebrovascular event months after the echo confirmed resolution of the AV vegetation, and I think this complication helps inform the readers regarding the challenging management of these patients. They describe the published limitations of this pathology and emphasize that despite a carefully planned approach to care, the prevention of thromboembolic events remains extremely challenging. They conclude by reminding each of us that these patients should be closely followed for potential complications.”
In addition to that Cardiac Tumors and Pseudotumors report, Hazaveh et al. present stellar TTE and TEE images to educate readers on intravenous leiomyomatosis and how to examine this pathology. Just Another Day in the Echo Lab tells the tale of an altered color flow Doppler pattern that led to the discovery of a rare cardiac Rosai-Dorfman diagnosis—just one reported at approximately three per one million people. Some superb 2D and 3D TEE images demonstrate an unusual presentation of an isolated pulmonic valve infective endocarditis in Infections in the Heart. To round out this issue, a Veterinary Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine report illustrates the multimodality imaging approach that accomplished the difficult diagnosis of a doubly committed juxta arterial VSD in a goat.
As Dr. Sorrell’s editorial notes, there are many options to get your news these days; CASE will continue striving to provide high-quality images and new educational viewpoints to drive your learning and add valuable insights to the field of cardiovascular ultrasound.
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