Mitral and aortic valve vegetations
by Nanda Navin C

Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography

by Navin C Nanda
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This video clip showing two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. Mitral and aortic valve vegetations. 4- and 2-chamber views are utilized to image large vegetations involving both leaflets of the mitral valve (arrows) and the aortic valve (arrowhead). Ruptured chords of both mitral leaflets are also visualized. M-mode study shows the characteristic multilayered, shaggy appearance of a vegetation. (LA: Left atrium; LV: Left ventricle; RA: Right atrium; RV: Right ventricle).

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