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Giant periprosthetic vegetation associated with pseudoaneurysmal-like rupture
1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2Servicio de Cardiología, Fundacíón Jimenez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
3Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Room 4A100, 30 North 1900 East Salt Lake City, UT 84132-2401, USA
* Corresponding author. E-mail address: rakesh.pai@hsc.utah.edu
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Case presentation
A 75-year-old man with a history of a mitral valve replacement in 1992 (Medtronic Hall valve, Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) presented with a