Back

Mitral Annular Disjunction in Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease: Insights From the Montalcino Aortic Consortium

2024-05-07 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only
View on medRxiv
Show abstract

BackgroundMitral annular disjunction (MAD), posterior displacement of the mitral valve leaflet hinge point, predisposes to arrhythmias or sudden cardiac death. We evaluated the burden of MAD, mitral valve prolapse (MVP), and mitral regurgitation (MR) by heritable thoracic aortic disease (HTAD) gene in a cross-sectional analysis of 2014-2023 data in the Montalcino Aortic Consortium (MAC) registry. MethodsMAD was determined by direct measurement of echocardiographic images. MR and MVP were define...

Predicted journal destinations