Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly?

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a relatively common finding in the general population, and it is associated with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and sudden cardiac death (SCD). In this report, we present a case involving a 63-year-old male who had been previously diagnosed with MVP complicated by multip...

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Autores principales: Shukla, Raj, Zoltowska, Dominika, Sattiraju, Srinivasan, Su, Jialin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8389508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34462693
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16668
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author Shukla, Raj
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Su, Jialin
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description Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a relatively common finding in the general population, and it is associated with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and sudden cardiac death (SCD). In this report, we present a case involving a 63-year-old male who had been previously diagnosed with MVP complicated by multiple admissions for episodes of ventricular arrhythmias.
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spelling pubmed-83895082021-08-29 Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly? Shukla, Raj Zoltowska, Dominika Sattiraju, Srinivasan Su, Jialin Cureus Cardiology Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a relatively common finding in the general population, and it is associated with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and sudden cardiac death (SCD). In this report, we present a case involving a 63-year-old male who had been previously diagnosed with MVP complicated by multiple admissions for episodes of ventricular arrhythmias. Cureus 2021-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8389508/ /pubmed/34462693 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16668 Text en Copyright © 2021, Shukla et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly?
title Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly?
title_full Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly?
title_fullStr Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly?
title_full_unstemmed Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly?
title_short Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Innocent Bystander or Proarrhythmogenic Anomaly?
title_sort mitral valve prolapse: an innocent bystander or proarrhythmogenic anomaly?
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8389508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34462693
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16668
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