Risk Factors
Marantic vegetations are often associated with previous rheumatic fever.
Other risk factors include:
- hypercoagulable states,
- mucin-producing adenocarcinomas, (most commonly associated with pancreatic adenocarcinomas)
- lupus and
- trauma (e.g., catheters).
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