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- 15. Figure 12-26 Infective (bacterial) endocarditis. A, Endocarditis of mitral valve (subacute, caused by Strep. viridans). The large, friable vegetations are denoted by arrows. B, Acute endocarditis of congenitally bicuspid aortic valve (caused by Staph. aureus) with extensive cuspal destruction and ring abscess (arrow). C, Histologic appearance of vegetation of endocarditis with extensive acute inflammatory cells and fibrin. Bacterial organisms were demonstrated by tissue Gram stain. (C, reproduced from Schoen FJ: Surgical pathology of removed natural and prosthetic heart valves. Human Pathol 18:558, 1987.) D, Healed endocarditis, demonstrating mitral valvular destruction but no active vegetations. Downloaded from: Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (on 17 September 2009 12:07 AM) © 2007 Elsevier