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Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of valvular regurgitation in patients with mitral valve prolapse: comparison with normal subjects.

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:Pulsed Doppler echocardiography was used to determine prospectively the prevalence of mitral, aortic, tricuspid and pulmonary regurgitation in 80 consecutive patients with mitral valve prolapse and 85 normal subjects with similar age and sex distribution. Mitral valve prolapse was defined by posterior systolic displacement of the mitral valve on M-mode echocardiography of 3 mm or more (40 patients), the presence of one or more mid- or late systolic clicks (61 patients), or both. Mitral regurgitation, detected by pulsed Doppler techniques in 53 patients with prolapse, was holosystolic in 24, early to mid-systolic in 6, late systolic in 15 and both holosystolic and late systolic behind different portions of the valve in 8. Definitive M-mode findings were present in only 27 of the 53 patients, and only 21 had mitral regurgitation audible on physical examination. Tricuspid regurgitation was evident by pulsed Doppler echocardiography in 15 patients (holosystolic in 9, early to mid-systolic in 1, late systolic in 4 and both holosystolic and late systolic in 1); 12 of these 15 patients, including all with an isolated late systolic pattern, had an echocardiographic pattern of tricuspid prolapse, but none had audible tricuspid regurgitation. A Doppler pattern compatible with aortic regurgitation was recorded in seven patients, all without echocardiographic aortic valve prolapse and only two with audible aortic insufficiency. A Doppler shift in the right ventricular outflow tract in diastole, suggestive of pulmonary regurgitation, was recorded in 16 of the 78 patients with an adequate Doppler examination: only 1 of the 16 had audible pulmonary insufficiency. Of the 85 normal subjects without audible regurgitation, pulsed Doppler examination detected mitral regurgitation in 3 subjects (holosystolic in 1 and early to mid-systolic in 2), aortic regurgitation in none, tricuspid regurgitation in 9 (holosystolic alone in 8 and both holosystolic and late systolic in 1) and right ventricular outflow tract turbulence compatible with pulmonary insufficiency in 15. The prevalence of valvular regurgitation, detected by pulsed Doppler echocardiography, is high in patients with mitral valve prolapse. Regurgitation may involve any of the four cardiac valves and is clinically silent in the majority of patients. The prevalence rates of mitral and aortic regurgitation are significantly higher in patients with mitral prolapse than in normal subjects, suggesting that alterations in underlying valve structure in the prolapse syndrome may indeed be responsible for this regurgitation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

journal_name

J Am Coll Cardiol

journal_title

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors

Come PC,Riley MF,Carl LV,Nakao S

doi

10.1016/s0735-1097(86)80308-4

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1355-64

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eissn

0735-1097

issn

1558-3597

pii

S0735-1097(86)80308-4

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Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of valvular regurgitation in patients with mitral valve prolapse: comparison with normal subjects.