A 79-year-old man was being evaluated for possible mitral valve repair for increasing mitral regurgitation. Transesophageal echocardiography with color flow Doppler showed left atrial enlargement, mitral valve prolapse, and spontaneous changes in the direction and configuration of regurgitant jets (during the same imaging study) determined by which leaflet prolapsed into the left atrium during ...

We investigated whether there is an association between anxiety disorders and mitral valve prolapse. We compared mitral valve prolapse prevalence in individuals with panic disorder (n = 41), social anxiety disorder (n = 89) and in healthy controls (n = 102) in an attempt to overcome the biases of previous studies. Our results show no associations between panic disorder or social anxiety disorde...

BACKGROUND Myxomatous mitral valve prolapse is a common cardiac abnormality. Morbus Barlow is characterized by excess myxomatous leaflet tissue, bileaflet prolapse or billowing, chordae elongation and annular dilatation with or without calcification. Extensive myxoid degeneration with destruction of the normal three-layered leaflet tissue architecture is observed histologically in such patients...

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Abstract Background and aim Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common benign valvular disease though with an incidence of 0.2-1.9%/year sudden cardiac death (SCD) related to complex ventricular arrhythmias in the form arrhythmic MVP (AMVP). In MVP, first diagnostic approach transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) that should be used described morphological functional features also presence mitral an...

Experimental coronary occlusions were carried out in 12 closed-chest dogs to investigate the functional anatomic characteristics of the mitral valve complex during acute myocardial ischemia. Two-dimensional echocardiography was used to assess left ventricular function, the mitral valve complex, and left atrial size. Presence of mitral regurgitation was assessed by left ventricular contrast echo...

This study examines the clinical and surgical outcome of a group of 55 patients (mean age 33 years) with secundum atrial septal defect who underwent surgical repair of this defect between 1981 and 1990. A group of 25 of these patients underwent late echocardiographic follow-up. Fifty-two patients underwent repair by direct suturing and three by patch closure. Surgical mortality was nil. There w...

Echocardiography was performed in 25 consecutive patients with angina pectoris and angiographically demonstrable coronary artery disease. Left ventricular echograms detected late or pansystolic mitral valve bowing suggesting of mitral valve proplapse in 6/25 (24%). Left ventricular angiography showed prolapse of the posterior mitral leaflet in 15/25 (60%), including 5 detected by echocardiograp...

OBJECTIVE This study explored the prevalence of panic disorder and other psychiatric disorders in young Han Chinese males with mitral valve prolapse (MVP). With the factors of age, sex, and ethnicity controlled, the specific role of MVP in panic disorder was analyzed. METHODS Subjects with chest pain aged between 18 and 25 years were assessed with the echocardiograph for MVP and the Chinese v...

Complications of mitral valve prolapse (MVP), among which serious ventricular arrhythmia and sudden death are of major importance, affect many individuals due to the high incidence of MVP itself in the community despite the actual low incidence of these complications. The present study investigated the incidence and distribution of ventricular arrhythmias according to their severity and relatio...