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Mitral Valve Prolapse and Pre‐Excitation
Author(s) -
CHEN WALTER W.C.,
WONG PHILIP H.C.,
CHOW JOSEPH S.F.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1982.tb02317.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mitral valve prolapse , ventricle , cardiology , mitral valve
Two out of 118 patients with mitral valve prolapse were found to have pre‐excitaiton. The presence of mitral valve prolapse in one patient with Lown‐Ganong‐Levine syndrome and the persistence of prolapse in (he presence and absence of pre‐excitation in another patient with intermittent type B Wolff‐Parkinson‐White syndrome suggest that mitral valve prolapse in pre‐excitation syndrome may not be secondary to the abnormal activation pattern of the left ventricle, which has been suggested as a possible mechanism by some investigators. (PACE, Vol. 5, September‐October, 1982)