Embolization from mitral valve vegetation is unusual to which of the following organs?
Lung
Brain
Liver
Spleen
Mitral valve vegetations usually do not embolise to lungs. Whereas in Tricuspid valve endocarditis a 'patchy nature' of recurrent lung pneumonitis caused by embolism of vegetation in the lungs is seen. Mitral valve vegetation would not enter the lung as it would cause a 'backward flow'. Hematogenously seeded focal infection is most often clinically evident in the skin, spleen, kidneys, skeletal system, and meninges. Ref: Textbook of Medicine By Robe.l Souhami, John Moxham, Page 575 ; Harrison's Internal Medicine, 18th Edition, Page 1054-55