purpose: to determine the prevalence of keratoconus (kcn) in patients with mitral valve prolapse (mvp). methods: this descriptive study was conducted on patients with mvp at shahid rajaei hospital during 2003-2004. corneal topography was performed in 392 subjects with absolute mitral valve prolapse based on perloff’s major criteria. orbscan was carried out in suspected kcn cases. results: patie...

Mitral valve prolapse is a benign condition. Mitral regurgitation is only complicated in patients with severe mitral valve prolapse. Women with mitral valve prolapse in the absence of other cardiovascular disorders tolerate pregnancy well and do not develop remarkable cardiac complications. Nevertheless, serious complications of mitral valve prolapse, including arrhythmia, infective endocarditi...

PURPOSE In mitral valve prolapse, determining whether the valve is suitable for surgical repair depends on the location and mechanism of regurgitation. We assessed whether cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) could accurately identify prolapsing or flail mitral valve leaflets and regurgitant jet direction in patients with known moderate or severe mitral regurgitation. METHODS CMR of the mi...

I read with interest the recent article on cardiac disorders in young women with anorexia nervosa by Vázquez et al.1 I was surprised, however, that the authors made no mention of mitral valve prolapse. The association of mitral valve prolapse with anorexia nervosa has been known for a long time.2-9 Taking into account the pathophysiology of mitral valve prolapse makes it easy to understand this...

Simultaneous electrocardiograms, phonocardiograms, and echocardiograms were recorded in 21 patients with mitral valve prolapse. Four patients with holosystolic mitral valve prolapse on echocardiogram had smaller resting end-diastolic volumes than the remaining 17 patients with late systolic echocardiopraphy prolapse (p greater than 0.01). Thirteen of the 17 patients with late systolic prolapse ...

AIM To evaluate the association between idiopathic mitral valve prolapse and panic disorder. METHODS The study comprised 50 patients with idiopathic mitral valve prolapse, 50 patients with panic disorder, and 50 healthy controls. All subjects underwent echocardiographic evaluation. If idiopathic mitral valve prolapse was present, the level of prolapse was measured. To reach psychiatric diagno...

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY A new mitral valve repair concept to treat mitral regurgitation (MR) due to valve prolapse was recently proposed. In this study, an improved design of this concept is presented, and the results of preliminary hemodynamic studies conducted in an in-vitro prolapse model are reported. METHODS The new repair approach is based on using a web/net attached to a standa...

In patients with mitral valve prolapse syndrome various disturbances of cardiac rhythm can be observed such as atrial arrhythmias, ventricular tachycardias and conduction disturbances. Of timely interest are the questions of which etiology is at the basis of the arrhythmias, what is their relevance with respect to sudden cardiac death, what are the indications for treatment and which therapeuti...

BACKGROUND Mitral-valve prolapse has been described as a common disease with frequent complications. To determine the prevalence of mitral-valve prolapse in the general population, as diagnosed with the use of current two-dimensional echocardiographic criteria, we examined the echocardiograms of 1845 women and 1646 men (mean [+/-SD] age, 54.7+/-10.0 years) who participated in the fifth examinat...