What are the clinical and echocardiographic characteristics that predict morbidity and mortality in patients with asymptomatic mitral valve prolapse?
Clinical and echocardiographic features can risk-stratify patients with asymptomatic mitral valve prolapse to identify those at risk for high morbidity or mortality.
Natural history of asymptomatic MVP in the community is widely heterogeneous and may be severe. Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics allow separation of the majority of patients with excellent prognosis from subsets of patients displaying, during follow-up, high morbidity or even excess mortality as direct a consequence of MVP.
Aviérinos et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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