Key result
Echocardiography surpasses auscultation as the essential diagnostic tool for mitral-valve prolapse.
Why the study?
Uncertainty persists about how mitral-valve prolapse should be diagnosed and about its clinical importance.
This review discusses the evolving diagnostic methods and prognostic implications of mitral-valve prolapse.
Echocardiography may warrant priority in mitral-valve prolapse evaluation; leaves open standardized algorithms and prognostic integration.
Mitral-valve prolapse is one of the most prevalent cardiac conditions and one of the most controversial: uncertainty persists about how it should be diagnosed and about its clinical importance. Historically, mitral-valve prolapse was first recognized by auscultation of midsystolic clicks and late systolic murmurs, and its presence is still usually suggested by auscultatory findings. However, the recognition of the variability of the auscultatory findings1 and of the high level of skill needed to perform such an examination has prompted a search for reliable laboratory methods of diagnosis. M-mode echocardiography and two-dimensional echocardiography have played an increasingly important part in the . . .
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Richard B. Devereux (1989) conducted a review in Mitral-valve prolapse. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography has become increasingly important for diagnosing mitral-valve prolapse due to the variability and high skill required for auscultatory diagnosis.
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