The ballooning posterior leaflet syndrome: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles in symptomatic and asymptomatic groups.

Due to a complex of vague symptoms in some patients with a ballooning posterior leaflet (BPL), a s b d a d h d personality inventory test (MMPI) wati given to 14 patients exhibiting a midsystolc click and/or late systolic murmur and a positive echocardiogram for a BPL. Seven of the eight symptom-free patients had normal MMPIs. Of the six symptomatic patients, five bad abnormal scores for hysteria and hypocbndriasis, four abnormal scores for depression, psychopathic deviate and schizophrenia, and three abnormal scores for psychasthenia. Of these six patients, two have been resuscitated from a