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case_images: Autopsy findings of a patient with underlying malignancy and mitral valve nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis. Note the left ventricle with prominent myocardial hypertrophy. Asterisk: left atrium, star: mitral valve vegetation, arrow: papillary muscle left ventricle.
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case_images: An autopsy indicated NBTE (Figure 1).
case_images: Mitral valve with fibrin-rich organizing thrombus. Hematoxylin and eosin (a) stained section demonstrated an organizing thrombus formed of fibrin and platelets (asterisk), valve seen on the right. There is a lack of significant inflammatory infiltrate and subsequent stains for infectious microorganisms (Gram-stains, b) were negative.
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case_images: Microscopy demonstrated a fibrin-rich thrombus without bacterial growth or tumor tissue (Figure 2).