The prevalence and clinical significance of aortic valve prolapse were determined prospectively in 2000 consecutive patients undergoing routine clinical cross sectional echocardiography. Two hundred and twelve patients were excluded because the aortic cusps were not adequately visualised. Aortic valve prolapse was defined as downward displacement of cuspal material below a line joining the poin...

THE PROLAPSED MITRAL VALVE, or clickmurmur syndrome, continues to evoke interest, concern and controversy. Although the midsystolic click and late systolic murmur were well described in the late 19th century,1 it was not until 1961 that Reid2 suggested the mitral valve as the cause of the click and mitral insufficiency as the cause of the murmur. This was confirmed by angiocardiography and phon...

Barlow's disease (BD) is one of the dominant forms degenerative mitral valve (MV) characterized by morphological changes connective tissue triggering mechanism leaflet coaptation failure. The MV prolapse driven chordal rupture or elongation, area enlargement and annular ectasia. Typical BD symptoms are found in 24% patients with (MPV). It should be noted that a heritable disorder. Patients typi...

We determined the prevalence of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) in presumably healthy young men by studying 107 male house officers and medical students with cardiac auscultation in the supine, sitting and standing positions. Echocardiograms were performed at rest in the supine position before and after amyl nitrite inhalation and were obtainable in 101 subjects. Eleven of the 101 subjects had abno...

Marcus-gunn phenomenon is a congenital and sometimes hereditary anomaly, in which a ptotic eyelid retracts momentarily when the mouth is open, or the jaw is moved. These associated movements attributed to abnormal connections between the central mechanisms innervating the pterygoid and elevator muscles. Sometimes this anomaly is associated with dual,s retraction syndrome, duplex kindneys and ur...

purpose : to determine the efficacy of three therapeutic regimens for the treatment of amaurosis fugax secondary to embolic sources from the heart methods : sixty patients randomly divided into 3 groups (20 patients in each group). group 1 received 100 mg aspirin/day, group 2 received the same dose of aspirin plus dipyridamole 75 mg twice daily and group 3 received 10 mg warfarin for 3 days fol...

Mitral valve prolapse is not commonly on the list of differential diagnosis when a patient presents in the emergency department (ED) in severe distress, presenting with non-specific features such as abdominal pain, tachycardia and dyspnea. A healthy 55-year-old man without significant past medical history arrived in the ED with a unique presentation of a primary mitral valve prolapse with an at...

The tricuspid valve was studied in 143 subjects using two dimensional echocardiography. The groups studied were 40 normal subjects, 31 patients with mitral valve prolapse, 22 with clinically probable tricuspid valve prolapse, 20 with congestive cardiac failure, and 30 with miscellaneous cardiac conditions but no features of right heart disease. Using multiple views it was possible to record all...

Article type: Original Article Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) can affect cardiac morphology; however, the relationship between BMI and valvular heart diseases has not been thoroughly evaluated. This study aimed to determine the relationship between BMI and mitral valve prolapse (MVP) as one of the most common valve diseases worldwide. It can help us to better understand pathophysiology of ...

Cerebral and retinal ischemic events have been described in mitral valve prolapse. To determine whether platelets play a part in the pathogenesis of thromboembolism we studied 29 patients with mitral valve prolapse, including nine (group I) with thromboembolism (cerebral, retinal and deep venous), eight (group II) with transient visual obscurations and 12 (group III) with neither thromboembolis...