Figure 48c

Bacterial endocarditis. A. Each of two cusps of the aortic valve shows perforation (probes) as part of active bacterial endocarditis. B. Perforation in an aortic cusp as a manifestation of bacteriologically healed bacterial endocarditis.

JE Edwards: Lesions causing or simulating aortic insufficiency. Cardiovasc Clin 5:128, 1973.