69) ANSWER
B) Heart murmur
RATIONALES:
Large, soft, rapidly developing
vegetations attach to the heart valves. They have a tendency to break off,
causing emboli and leaving ulcerations on the valve leaflets. These emboli
produce symptoms of cardiac murmur, fever, anorexia, malaise and neurologic
sequelae of emboli. Furthermore, the vegetations may travel to various organs
such as spleen, kidney, coronary artery, brain and lungs and obstruct blood
flow.
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