Difference between revisions of "Heart valves"

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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===
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