This case series highlights a potential association between mitral valve prolapse and major neurological episodes in young patients.
Should not change practice; hypothesis-generating for mitral valve prolapse–neurological link in young patients.
Four young patients presenting with major neurological episodes and with coexisting prolapsing mitral valve are described. An attempt at correlating the two entities is made. The neurological complications of prolapsing mitral valve are stressed.
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