Risk for symptomatic embolism can be predicted via echocardiographic vegetation features in patients with infective endocarditis.

She suffered from noninfectious endocarditis of her heart’s mitral valve. It meant “the valve was not only destroyed,” but vegetation had been growing on it as well, her thoracic surgeon ...

If the vegetation grows to a large enough ... is below. In rheumatic heart disease, an autoimmune attack on the mitral valve produces thickening of the valve leaflets. The mitral valve is often ...