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Vegetation on posterior mitral valve leaflet at a size of around 3.3 cm x 2.1 cm as seen on TEE.
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Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). Subsequent examinations (transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), MRI, blood culture) delineated the diagnoses of acute mitral valve infective endocarditis, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, and left cerebellar septic emboli (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).