Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in patients with mitral valve prolapse.
Population
12 patients with mitral valve prolapse and paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia
Design
Case_series
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May support EP evaluation for left-sided pathways in MVP with SVT; leaves open need for larger studies before practice change.
Structured PICO
P
Population
12 patients with mitral valve prolapse and paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia
I
Intervention
Standard intracardiac recording and stimulation techniques (electrophysiological studies)
O
Outcome
Mechanism of supraventricular tachycardia (presence and location of bypass tracts or AV nodal re-entry)surrogate
Supraventricular tachycardia in mitral valve prolapse is frequently related to left-sided atrioventricular bypass tracts, requiring electrophysiological studies for diagnosis.
Cite This Study
Josephson et al. (1978) studied this question.