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  • Title: Complications of mitral valve prolapse. Disproportionate occurrence in men and older patients.
    Author: Devereux RB, Hawkins I, Kramer-Fox R, Lutas EM, Hammond IW, Spitzer MC, Hochreiter C, Roberts RB, Belkin RN, Kligfield P.
    Journal: Am J Med; 1986 Nov; 81(5):751-8. PubMed ID: 3776983.
    Abstract:
    To determine factors influencing the strength of association between mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation, ruptured chordae tendineae, and infective endocarditis, the prevalence of mitral prolapse in patients with disease was compared with both clinical and population control groups. The prevalence of mitral valve prolapse was 4 percent among population and clinical control groups (eight of 196 and 84 of 2,146, respectively) and was significantly higher (p less than 0.001) in patients with endocarditis (11 of 67, 16 percent), mitral regurgitation (17 of 31, 55 percent, and ruptured chordae (27 of 43, 63 percent). Odds ratios for complications in persons with mitral valve prolapse ranged from 4.6 for endocarditis to 41.4 for ruptured chordae in overall analyses, and from 6.8 for endocarditis to 53.0 for ruptured chordae based on age- and sex-matched case-control triplets (p less than 0.001 for each). All complications occurred disproportionately in men with mitral valve prolapse, in whom odds ratios ranged from 2.5 to 7.4 compared with an additional control group of unselected subjects with mitral valve prolapse. Compared with this control group, patients with mitral valve prolapse and endocarditis were slightly more likely to have a previously known heart murmur (odds ratio 3.2, difference not significant) but significantly more likely to have murmurs at the time of evaluation (odds ratio 8.5, p less than 0.01). Patients with mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation and ruptured chordae tendineae were also significantly older than the unselected subjects with mitral valve prolapse (48 +/- 14 and 55 +/- 16 versus 38 +/- 14 years, p less than 0.005 for both). The concentration of risk of endocarditis in men with mitral valve prolapse and patients with antecedent murmur suggests that antibiotic prophylaxis is warranted in these groups but not in women without a murmur of mitral regurgitation.
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