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To outline the primary pathological conditions affecting the mitral valve and describe their relative prevalence.

February 17, 2004CirculationOpen Access

Mitral Valve Disease

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Informs US mitral evaluations to prioritize prolapse over stenosis; leaves open need for updated population-based prevalence data.

To outline the primary pathological conditions affecting the mitral valve and describe their relative prevalence.
Narrative review assessing the epidemiology and clinical features of mitral valve disorders.
Mitral valve prolapse is the most common mitral disorder, occurring in up to 5% of the population.
Mitral stenosis represents less than 1% of cardiac diagnoses in the United States, though it occurs more frequently in developing nations.
The mitral valve is identified as the most complex and most frequently diseased of the four cardiac valves.

Zoltan G. Turi (2004) studied this question.

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