Cerebral ischemia with mitral valve prolapse.
Cerebral ischemia with mitral valve prolapse.
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脑缺血伴二尖瓣脱垂。
DOI:
10.1016/0002-8703(87)90959-8
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Sila,CA
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文献类型:
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作者:
Wolf,PA;Sila,CA
In 1966 Barlow and Bosman’reported on the case of a 23-year-old woman with transient left arm weakness with a prolapeing mitral valve leaflet who had previously been told that her heart was abnormal. In this initial description of unexplained cerebral ischemia in a patient with mitral valve prolapse (MVP), the authors did not emphasize a possible pathologic relationship; no other neurologic features of the case were presented. The relationship between MVP and cerebral ischemia was first postulated in 1974 when Barnett2 reported four patients with MVP and cerebral ischemic events. To this initial group, another eight patients were added in 19763 and two more in 1977.4 All these patients were young-10 to 48 years of age-and none had predisposing factors for atherosclerosis; coronary artery disease and intracranial or extracranial atherosclerotic arterial disease were absent. The only abnormality found was MVP, discovered on angiocardiogram. Bamett postulated that an embolus originating from the abnormal mitral valve was responsible for the cerebral ischemic event. The focal nature of the neurologic deficit, the involvement of both hemispheres at different times in three of the patients and angiographic pictures of occluded intracranial arteries in six of the patients, all favored an embolic mechanism. In 1980 Barnett et al5 published a case-control series strongly supporting a causal relationship between MVP and cerebroretinal ischemic events in a young person. The cases comprised 60 patients, 45 years old or younger, who were admitted after transient ischemic attacks (TIA) or minor nonprogressing strokes. All patients received a M-mode echocardiographic examination. An equal