Background: Echocardiography is an essential evaluation in the diagnosis of infectious endocarditis (IE). Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is a portable study that is widely available and non-invasive. Though transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is traditionally known for higher sensitivity and specificity, it is speculated that improvements in modern TTE imaging could produce higher diagnostic yield than previously thought. [...]

Case Presentation: A 36 years old female with past medical history of IV drug abuse, presented with dyspnea, nasal congestion, tactile disturbances, diarrhea, body aches and generalized weakness for 1 day. She was recently treated for tricuspid valve endocarditis. A Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) obtained at that time showed ejection fraction (EF) of 55-60%. On presentation, [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 64-year-old male, BMI 35.6 kg/m2, with a history of diabetes mellitus II, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and recent CAD after syncope, who was under going CABG. A cardiac tumor was incidentally found intraoperatively (Figure 1). The pre-operative transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) was negative for signs of tumor (Figure 2), however, when it [...]