Figure 1.

Transesophageal long axis view in a patient with severe heart failure and mitral incompetence showing a large vegetation (at arrows) attached to the posterior mitral valve leaflet. LA, left atrium; LV, left ventricle; MV, mitral valve; Veg, vegetation.

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