Mitral valve prolapse and cerebral ischemic events. A comparison between a neurology population with stroke and a cardiology population with mitral valve prolapse observed for five years.

760 cardiology patients with echocardiographically demonstrated mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and 43 neurology patients admitted with a cerebral embolus and no evidence of carotid or other cardiac lesion.

Incidence of stroke in the MVP cohort and prevalence of MVP in the stroke cohorthard clinical