Methods Sixty-three children with benign joint hypermobility syndrome were included in case group and 63 without any rheumatologic disease were placed in control group. We used Carter-Wilkinson and Beighton criteria for diagnosing of benign joint hypermobility syndrome. MVP was evaluated by echocardiography in both groups. The mitral leaflet displacement >2 mm considered as cut off for diagnosi...

10. Criley JM, Lewis JB, Humphries JO, Ross RS: Prolapse of the mitral valve: Clinical and cineangio-cardiographic findings. Br Heart J 28: 488, 1966 11. Segal BL, Likoff W: Late systolic murmur of mitral regurgitation. Am Heart J 67: 757, 1964 12. Jeresaty RM: Mitral valve prolapse click syndrome. Prog Cardiovasc Dis 15: 623, 1973 13. Ranganathan N, Silver MD, Robinson TI, Kostuk WJ, Felderhof...

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to determine the accuracy and outcome implications of mitral regurgitant lesions assessed by echocardiography. BACKGROUND In patients with mitral regurgitation (MR), valve repair is a major incentive to early surgery and is decided on the basis of the anatomic mitral lesions. These lesions can be observed easily with transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), ...

The cross-sectional echocardiographic features of mitral valve prolapse were defined in 26 children (ages 2-18 years) using a real-time, multiple-crystal ultrasound scanner. In each patient the physical findings of the mitral valve click-murmur syndrome were present and mitral valve prolapse had been diagnosed previously by conventional single crystal echocardiography. Mitral prolapse occurred ...

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...

Sir, One should differentiate angiographic prolapse from midsystolic click, the auscultatory hallmark of the mitral valve prolapse-click syndrome. In my articles quoted by the authors, I have refuted the causal association between coronary artery disease and the midsystolic click rather than between coronary artery disease and angiographic mitral valve prolapse. In coronary artery disease, angi...

A 49-year-old man with Lutembacher's syndrome associated with frontal meningioma referred to our hospital. He also suffered from exertional dyspnea. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated mitral valve area of 1.48 cm2, moderate mitral stenosis, and left atrial dimension (LAD) of 5.6 cm with no clot. TEE revealed severe mitral stenosis, mitral valve area of 1.05 cm2 with wilkins 8-10 score,...

Marfan syndrome is a systematic genetic disease of the connective tissue. The cardiac affection would predict the prognosis and ischemic stroke might complicate it. The purpose of this work is to discuss the mechanisms of the ischemic stroke in Marfan syndrome which have to be considered in all young patients of ischemic strokes. We report the case of a 17-year-old male patient who presented wi...

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) results from the systolic movement of a portion or segments of the mitral valve leaflets into the left atrium during left ventricular systole. It is well appreciated today that floppy mitral valve (FMV) is the central issue in the MVP and mitral valve regurgitation (MVR) story. The term FMV refers to the expansion of the area of the mitral valve leaflets with elongat...