Diagnosis and classification of severity of mitral valve prolapse: Methodologic, biologic, and prognostic considerations

Echocardiographically Documented Mitral-Valve Prolapse

1985 • 561 citations

Mitral valve prolapse in one hundred presumably healthy young females.

1976 • 443 citations

Mitral valve prolapse.

1976 • 431 citations

The significance of late systolic murmurs

1963 • 389 citations

Mitral valve prolapse in the general population. I. Epidemiologic features: The Framingham Study

1983 • 359 citations

The floppy mitral valve. Study of incidence, pathology, and complications in surgical, necropsy, and forensic material.

1978 • 352 citations

The relationship of mitral annular shape to the diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse.

1987 • 343 citations

Morphology of the Human Mitral Valve

1970 • 342 citations

Morphology of the Human Mitral Valve

1970 • 322 citations

Prolapse of the mitral valve: clinical and cine-angiocardiographic findings.

1966 • 305 citations

Aneurysmal protrusion of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve

1966 • 291 citations

Inheritance of Mitral Valve Prolapse: Effect of Age and Sex on Gene Expression

1982 • 249 citations

The Association of Floppy Mitral Valve with Disjunction of the Mitral Annulus Fibrosus

1986 • 237 citations

The Variable Spectrum of Echocardiographic Manifestations of the Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome

1974 • 233 citations

Ballooning deformity (mucoid degeneration) of atrioventricular valves.

1969 • 225 citations

Long-Term Prognosis of Mitral-Valve Prolapse

1977 • 216 citations

Mitral valve prolapse. Two-dimensional echocardiographic and angiographic correlation.

1976 • 208 citations

Echocardiographic Abnormalities in the Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome

1974 • 208 citations

Use of Echocardiography in Patients with Prolapsed Mitral Valve

1971 • 202 citations

Echocardiographic Patterns in Patients with the Syndrome of Systolic Click and Late Systolic Murmur

1971 • 196 citations

Arrhythmias and sudden death in mitral valve prolapse

1987 • 196 citations

Prevalence and clinical features of mitral valve prolapse

1987 • 185 citations

Mitral valve prolapse in the general population. 2. Clinical features: The Framingham Study

1983 • 182 citations

Significance and prognosis of an isolated late systolic murmur: a 9- to 22-yearyearfollow-up.

1974 • 177 citations

Mitral valve dysfunction in the Marfan syndrome

1983 • 175 citations

Pathologic Features of Sudden Death in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

1985 • 168 citations

The Spectrum of Cardiac Defects in the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Types I and III

1980 • 162 citations

Prevalence of mitral valve prolapse in normal children

1985 • 158 citations

Mitral regurgitation: relationship of noninvasive descriptors of right and left ventricular performance to clinical and hemodynamic findings and to prognosis in medically and surgically treated patients.

1986 • 156 citations

Complications of mitral valve prolapse

1986 • 147 citations

Two dimensional echocardiography in mitral, aortic and tricuspid valve prolapse

1980 • 142 citations

The floppy mitral valve

1982 • 139 citations

Mid-systolic clicks.

1961 • 134 citations

Echocardiographic detection of mitral valve prolapse. Exclusion of false positive diagnosis and determination of inheritance.

1975 • 134 citations

New guidelines for the clinical diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse

1986 • 134 citations

The Varying Clinical Spectrum of the Systolic Click-Late Systolic Murmur Syndrome

1970 • 128 citations

Relation between clinical features of the mitral prolapse syndrome and echocardiographically documented mitral valve prolapse

1986 • 120 citations

Dilatation of the mitral anulus

1975 • 109 citations

Mitral valve prolapse and bacterial endocarditis: When is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary?

1985 • 103 citations

"Myxomatous" mitral valves: collagen dissolution as the primary defect.

1982 • 100 citations

Angiographic-Morphologic Correlation in Patients with Severe Mitral Regurgitation Due to Prolapse of the Posterior Mitral Valve Leaflet

1973 • 100 citations

Complex arrhythmias in mitral regurgitation with and without mitral valve prolapse: Contrast to arrhythmias in mitral valve prolapse without mitral regurgitation

1985 • 99 citations

The genetic basis of common disease

1963 • 93 citations

Mitral valve prolapse and infective endocarditis

1977 • 93 citations

Billowing, floppy, prolapsed or flail mitral valves?

1985 • 93 citations

Primary (spontaneous) chordal rupture: Relation to myxomatous valve disease and mitral valve prolapse

1985 • 89 citations

Mitral valve prolapse and ruptured chordae tendineae

1985 • 87 citations

Mitral valve prolapse and the mitral valve prolapse syndrome

1991 • 84 citations

Effect of atrial septal defect repair on left ventricular geometry and degree of mitral valve prolapse.

1980 • 79 citations

The floppy mitral valve. Study on pathogenesis.

1980 • 74 citations

Postural changes in left ventricular and mitral valvular dynamics in the systolic click - late systolic murmur syndrome.

1975 • 73 citations

Risk of infective endocarditis in mitral valve prolapse with and without precordial systolic murmurs

1987 • 71 citations

Evaluation of the echocardiogram as an epidemiologic tool in an asymptomatic population.

1979 • 71 citations

Inheritance of the mitral valve prolapse syndrome

1983 • 69 citations

Evidence for progression from mild to severe mitral regurgitation in mitral valve prolapse

1986 • 68 citations

ASSOCIATION OF MITRAL-VALVE PROLAPSE WITH LOW BODY-WEIGHT AND LOW BLOOD PRESSURE

1982 • 68 citations

Mitral valve prolapse and coronary artery disease. Clinical, hemodynamic, and angiographic correlations.

1975 • 66 citations

Mild mitral regurgitation and the mitral prolapse fiasco

1980 • 66 citations

Contrasting patterns of autonomic dysfunction in patients with mitral valve prolapse and panic attacks

1987 • 65 citations

Echocardiographic spectrum of mitral valve motion in children with and without mitral valve prolapse: The nature of false positive diagnosis

1977 • 63 citations

Mitral Valve Prolapse in Anorexia Nervosa

1986 • 61 citations

Age and the clinical profile of idiopathic mitral valve prolapse.

1986 • 59 citations

Angiographic diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse: Correlation with echocardiography

1977 • 55 citations

Panic disorder in patients with mitral valve prolapse

1982 • 55 citations

Prevalence of mitral prolapse by two dimensional echocardiography in healthy young women.

1983 • 54 citations

Idiopathic prolapsed mitral leaflet syndrome. Angiographic-clinical correlations.

1976 • 52 citations

Orthostatic hypotension: A commonly unrecognized cause of symptoms in mitral valve prolapse

1981 • 51 citations

Mitral-Valve Prolapse Syndrome

1976 • 51 citations

Phonocardiogram and apex cardiogram in systolic click--late systolic murmur syndrome.

1973 • 50 citations

Mitral valve prolapse: Comparative Value of M-mode, two-dimensional and doppler echocardiography

1983 • 49 citations

A Prospective Study of Mitral Valvular Prolapse in Young Men

1979 • 48 citations

Sensitivity and specificity of two-dimensional echocardiographic signs of mitral valve prolapse

1984 • 46 citations

Isolated mitral valve prolapse: Chordal architecture as an anatomic basis in older patients

1985 • 46 citations

Independence of mitral valve prolapse and neurosis.

1983 • 44 citations

MITRAL‐VALVE PROLAPSE PREVALENCE IN AN AUSTRALIAN POPULATION

1981 • 44 citations

The determinants of onset of mitral valve prolapse in the systolic click-late systolic murmur syndrome.

1976 • 42 citations

Non-ejection systolic clicks and mitral systolic murmurs in black schoolchildren of Soweto, Johannesburg.

1976 • 41 citations

Relation of mitral valve prolapse to left ventricular size in Marfan's syndrome

1985 • 40 citations

The Surgical Pathology of Rheumatic and Floppy Mitral Valves

1986 • 39 citations

Four year follow-up of Black schoolchildren with non-ejection systolic clicks and mitral systolic murmurs

1978 • 39 citations

The Prevalence of Mitral Valve Prolapse in Healthy Men and Women in Sweden: An Echocardiographic Study

1984 • 38 citations

Connective tissue abnormalities in spontaneous rupture of chordae tendineae.

1971 • 38 citations

Angiographic-echocardiographic correlation in mitral valve prolapse

1979 • 36 citations

Diagnostic precision of echocardiography in mitral valve prolapse

1985 • 33 citations

Mitral Valve Prolapse: An Assessment of Clinical Features, Associated Conditions and Prognosis

1983 • 33 citations

Mitral valve prolapse requiring surgery. Clinical and Pathologic study

1985 • 32 citations

Sensitivity and specificity of M mode echocardiographic signs of mitral valve prolapse

1982 • 31 citations

Frequency and significance of M-mode echocardiographic evidence of mitral valve prolapse in clinically isolated pure mitral regurgitation: Analysis of 65 patients having mitral valve replacement

1984 • 30 citations

Mitral Valve Prolapse

1986 • 28 citations

Does mitral valve prolapse cause nonspecific symptoms?

1982 • 26 citations

Ticarcillin plus clavulanic acid in the treatment of patients with cancer

1985 • 23 citations

Insensitivity of echocardiography in detecting mitral valve prolapse in older patients with chest pain

1977 • 22 citations

Relation between clinical features of the mitral valve prolapse syndrome and echocardiographically documented mitral valve prolapse

1987 • 21 citations

Mitral Valve Prolapse in Blacks

1982 • 20 citations

Mitral valve prolapse: A plea for unanimity

1976 • 20 citations

Observer variation in the echocardiographic diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse

1986 • 19 citations

Mitral valve prolapse as a cause of hemodynamically important mitral regurgitation.

1980 • 19 citations

Contribution of M-mode echocardiography to cardiac diagnosis

1978 • 17 citations

Observer Variation in the Angiocardiographic Diagnosis of Mitral Valve Prolapse

1981 • 16 citations

Mitral valve prolapse in patients with coronary artery disease. Echocardiographic-angiographic correlation.

1977 • 16 citations

BODILY HABITUS AND MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE

1985 • 15 citations

Effect of transducer placement on echocardiographic mitral valve systolic motion.

1976 • 15 citations

Classification of the radiological morphology of the mitral valve. Differentiation between true and pseudoprolapse.

1980 • 13 citations

Rupture of tendinous chords during acute rheumatic carditis in young children

1986 • 11 citations

Prevalence of mitral valve prolapse in presumably healthy korean adults

1985 • 9 citations

Lack of association between dermal arches and mitral valve prolapse: Relation to anxiety

1984 • 8 citations

Familial occurrence of mitral valve prolapse: is this related to the straight back syndrome?

1983 • 8 citations

Effects of gravitational stresses on mitral valve prolapse. I. Changes in auscultatory findings produced by progressive passive head-up tilt.

1978 • 5 citations

Morphology of myxomatous valves

1983 • 3 citations

Comparison of supine and left lateral decubitus positions on M-mode echocardiographic findings in mitral valve prolapse by auscultation

1986 • 2 citations

Shape analysis of two-dimensional echocardiograms in mitral valve prolapse

1985 • 1 citations

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1955 • 0 citations