✦ LIBER ✦
Severity of mitral valve prolapse is associated with basal left ventricular hypertrophy: a cardiac magnetic resonance study
✍ Scribed by Mohammad I Zia; Valentina Valenti; Caroline Cherston; Maressa C Criscito; Seth Uretsky; Steven D Wolff
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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✦ Synopsis
Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is associated with concentric basal hypertrophy of the left ventricle. We found a strong correlation between the excursion of the mitral valve annulus and the degree of relative hypertrophy suggesting the possibility that locally increased myocardial function may be responsible for the hypertrophy.