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Key Clinical Message: Abdominal aortic aneurysm complicated by tuberous sclerosis is rare, particularly in patients over the age of 10. It is important to screen for abdominal aortic aneurysm in adolescents diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis regularly.

Abstract: A 15-year-old girl who was diagnosed with tuberculous sclerosis complicated with a saccular aortic abdominal aneurysm (AAA), measuring 19 × 18 mm in diameter.

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An 86-year-old man who had undergone two mitral valve replacements developed heart failure due to prosthetic valve infection and left ventricular pseudoaneurysm (LVPA). LVPA due to infective endocarditis is rare and caused by the abscess formation in the left ventricular myocardium. Infective endocarditis caused by enterococci requires attention to relapse.

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