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**Cardiac involvement - vegetation. | **Cardiac involvement - vegetation. | ||
**+/-Febrile. | **+/-Febrile. | ||
===Gross=== | |||
Location: | |||
*Left sided (mitral, aortic) more common than right sided (pulmonic, tricuspid). | |||
**This is reversed in IV drug users.<ref name=pmid16401952>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mathura | first1 = KC. | last2 = Thapa | first2 = N. | last3 = Rauniyar | first3 = A. | last4 = Magar | first4 = A. | last5 = Gurubacharya | first5 = DL. | last6 = Karki | first6 = DB. | title = Injection drug use and tricuspid valve endocarditis. | journal = Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ) | volume = 3 | issue = 1 | pages = 84-6 | month = | year = | doi = | PMID = 16401952 }}</ref> | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||