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What clinical and echocardiographic factors are associated with physicians' recommendations for endocarditis prophylaxis in patients with mitral valve prolapse?
What clinical and echocardiographic factors are associated with physicians' recommendations for endocarditis prophylaxis in patients with mitral valve prolapse?
Younger age and Doppler-detected mitral regurgitation strongly drive physician recommendations for endocarditis prophylaxis in mitral valve prolapse, highlighting a gap between clinical practice and guidelines.
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Younger age and mitral regurgitation may drive prophylaxis recommendations in mitral valve prolapse; leaves open guideline alignment and outcome impact.
Carl J. Lavie (1989) studied this question.
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