2.The small pink vegetation on the rightmost cusp margin represents the typical finding with non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (or so-called "marantic endocarditis").
3.Here is another marantic vegetation on the leftmost cusp. These vegetations are rarely over 0.5 cm in size. However, they are very prone to embolize.
4.3-D FEM was employed to investigate the stress states caused by cusp inclination on the node 338 of pre-palate and 350 of the frenal notch of the base of MCD.