TY - JOUR
T1 - Mitral Valve Prolapse and Stroke
T2 - Echocardiographic Evidence for a Missing Causative Link
AU - Gross, Charles M.
AU - Nichols, Fenwick T
AU - von Dohlen, Thomas W.
AU - D'Cruz, Ivan A.
PY - 1989/1/1
Y1 - 1989/1/1
N2 - There is general acceptance of a causal connection between mitral valve prolapse and systemic embolic. events. The precise mechanism, however, remains controversial, with current hypotheses favoring the embolization of thrombotic deposits from the abnormal mitral valve. It might be surmised that echocardiography could easily document the presence of such thrombi, but actually, this has never been reported previously. Described herein is a patient with a severe cerebrovascular accident in whom echocardiography clearly demonstrated a mass of high embolic potential attached directly to the prolapsing mitral valve leaflet.
AB - There is general acceptance of a causal connection between mitral valve prolapse and systemic embolic. events. The precise mechanism, however, remains controversial, with current hypotheses favoring the embolization of thrombotic deposits from the abnormal mitral valve. It might be surmised that echocardiography could easily document the presence of such thrombi, but actually, this has never been reported previously. Described herein is a patient with a severe cerebrovascular accident in whom echocardiography clearly demonstrated a mass of high embolic potential attached directly to the prolapsing mitral valve leaflet.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0894-7317(89)80070-7
DO - 10.1016/S0894-7317(89)80070-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 2629866
AN - SCOPUS:0024624409
SN - 0894-7317
VL - 2
SP - 94
EP - 97
JO - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
JF - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
IS - 2
ER -