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In medicine, a vegetation is an abnormal growth1 named for its similarity to natural vegetation.
Vegetations are often associated with endocarditis.234
It can be made of fibrin5 and platelets.6
Vegetations due to infective endocarditis related to Staphylococcus aureus are generally large, while the vegetations due to rheumatic fever related to Streptococcus pyogenes, are typically small. While the vegetations related to staphylococcal or streptococcal origins are infective, the vegetations due to Libman-Sacks endocarditis related to systemic lupus erythematosus, and nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) are usually sterile and small.
References
- ^ Vegetation at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ^ Miyata E, Satoh S, Inokuchi K, et al (September 2007). "Three fatal cases of rapidly progressive infective endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus: one case with huge vegetation". Circ. J. 71 (9): 1488–91. PMID 17721034, http://joi.jlc.jst.go.jp/JST.JSTAGE/circj/71.1488?from=PubMed.
- ^ Gotsman I, Meirovitz A, Meizlish N, Gotsman M, Lotan C, Gilon D (May 2007). "Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of morbidity and mortality in infective endocarditis: the significance of vegetation size". Isr. Med. Assoc. J. 9 (5): 365–9. PMID 17591374.
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