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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Apical 4 chamber echocardiogram showing vegetations on the mitral valve in patient with endocarditis The apical four chamber views from the transthoracic echocardiography show bulky vegetations on the mitral valve (arrows). These images have been captured digitally and are displayed in quadrant screen format. In spite of insensitivity for smaller vegetations, precordial imaging is often effective for the pupose of imaging vegetations. LV: left ventricle; RV: right ventricle; LA: left atrium; RA: right atrium; TV: tricuspid valve.