SLE mitral and tricuspid valve vegetations are -: (A) Salmon patch, (B) Libman sacs disease, (C) Janeway lesions, (D) Osiers nodes
Answer is B. Ans. is 'b' i.e., Libmann sach's disease Endocarditis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Libman-Sach's Disease)o Mitral and tricuspid valvulitis with small, sterile vegetations, called Libman-Sach's endocarditis, is occasionally encountered in systemic lupus erythematosus,o Due to the use of steriods, the incidence of this complication has been greatly reduced.o The lesions are small (1 to 4 mm in diameter), single or multiple, sterile, pink vegetations with a warty (verrucous) appearance located on the undersurfaces of the atrioventricular valves, on the valvuar endocardium, on the chords, or on the mural endocardium of atria or ventricles.