Severe mitral valve regurgitation (usually from mitral valve prolapse) if repair rather than replacement is likely, even in the lack of symptoms and normal left ventricular ejection fraction ...

There are several different types of mitral valve disease, including mitral regurgitation (MR), mitral stenosis (MS), and mitral valve prolapse (MVP).

Mitral valve prolapse occurs when the leaflets and supporting cords of the mitral valve have excessive tissue and weaken, leading to leakage (regurgitation), he says.

Mitral valve prolapse was discovered only about 50 years ago. Initially, doctors worried that it was a serious, even life-threatening, condition. However, as has been true of many newly discovered ...

Patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation who are otherwise healthy should have mitral valve repair surgery sooner rather than later, even if they feel no symptoms. The results challenge the ...

Mitral valve prolapse occurs when the leaflets and supporting cords of the mitral valve have excessive tissue and weaken, leading to leakage (regurgitation), he says.

One such condition is mitral valve regurgitation, where the valve between the left atrium and ventricle does not close as it should. This causes some blood to leak backward, affecting the heart ...

Mitral valve prolapse, by far the most common cause of pure organic mitral regurgitation in the western world, can almost invariably be treated with surgical valve repair rather than replacement.

However, moderate or severe recurrence of mitral regurgitation occurred significantly more often in the repair group: 32.6% versus 2.3% (p<0.001).

Degenerative mitral valve disease, usually related to a severe form of mitral valve prolapse, is responsible for most cases of mitral regurgitation, which affects more than 3 million people in the ...

Practice guidelines recommend consideration of mitral-valve repair or chordal-sparing replacement for patients with severe ischemic mitral regurgitation that is causing limiting symptoms despite ...

Mitral valve prolapse produces a mid-systolic click usually followed by a uniform, high-pitched murmur. The murmur is actually due to mitral regurgitation that accompanies the MVP, thus it is ...