ARRHYTHMIA WITH MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE: RESULTS OF ANNULOPLASTY IN TWO PATIENTS |
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| Authors: | Al-Bassam Mahdi S Cooley Denton A |
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| Institution: | Divisions of Cardiology and Surgery of the Texas Heart Institute of St. Luke's Episcopal and Texas Children's Hospitals, Houston, Texas. |
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| Abstract: | The effectiveness of posterior annuloplasty in two patients who failed to respond to medical treatment for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias related to mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is reported. Although the etiology of arrhythmia in MVP remains mostly speculative, anatomic correction of prolapse or billowing of the mitral leaflets appears to reverse the anatomic and pathologic conditions that cause the arrhythmia. |
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