Stefano Figliozzi, Georgios Georgiopoulos, Pedro M Lopes, Klemens B Bauer, Sara Moura-Ferreira, Lara Tondi, Saima Mushtaq, Stefano Censi, Anna Giulia Pavon, Ilaria Bassi, Maria Luz Servato, Arco J Teske, Federico Biondi, Domenico Filomena, Silvia Pica, Camilla Torlasco, Denisa Muraru, Pierre Monney, Giuseppina Quattrocchi, Viviana Maestrini, Luciano Agati, Lorenzo Monti, Patrizia Pedrotti, Bert Vandenberk, Angelo Squeri, Massimo Lombardi, António M Ferreira, Juerg Schwitter, Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Amedeo Chiribiri, José F Rodríguez Palomares, Ali Yilmaz, Daniele Andreini, Anca Florian, Tim Leiner, João Abecasis, Luigi Paolo Badano, Jan Bogaert, Pier-Giorgio Masci
Background Patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) may develop adverse outcomes even in the absence of mitral regurgitation or left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. Purpose To investigate the prognostic value of mitral annulus disjunction (MAD) and myocardial fibrosis at late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac MRI in patients with MVP without moderate-to-severe mitral regurgitation or LV dysfunction. Materials and Methods In this longitudinal retrospective study, 118 144 cardiac MRI studies were evaluated between October 2007 and June 2020 at 15 European tertiary medical centers...
September 13, 2022: Radiology