Vegetation (pathology)

Histopathology of a vegetation of bacterial endocarditis, taken from a valve repair, H&E stain.

In medicine, a vegetation is an abnormal growth[1] named for its similarity to natural vegetation. Vegetations are often associated with endocarditis.[2][3][4] They can be made of fibrin[5] and platelets.[6]

  1. ^ "Vegetation" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  2. ^ 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. doi:10.1253/circj.71.1488. PMID 17721034.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "eMedicine/Stedman Medical Dictionary Lookup!". Archived from the original on 2008-02-16.
  5. ^ "Pathology Education: Cardiovascular".
  6. ^ "eMedicine/Stedman Medical Dictionary Lookup!". Archived from the original on 2008-02-16.