Also called: Also called: Barlow's syndrome, Floppy valve syndrome, MVP
Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) occurs when one of your heart's valves doesn't work properly. MVP is one of the more common heart valve conditions. Most often, it's a lifelong condition that a person is born with. Most people with MVP have no symptoms or problems, need no treatment, and are able to lead normal, active lives.
MVP puts you at risk for infective endocarditis, a kind of heart infection. To prevent it, doctors used to prescribe antibiotics before dental work or certain surgeries. Now, only people at high risk of endocarditis need the antibiotics.
If you need treatment for MVP, medicines can help relieve symptoms or prevent complications. Very few people will need surgery to repair or replace the mitral valve.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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Mitral Valve Prolapse
(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/mvp/mvp_whatis.html
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Mitral Valve Prolapse
(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/mitralvalveprolapse/htm/index.htm
Also available in Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/mitralvalveprolapsespanish/htm/index.htm -
Mitral Valve Prolapse: What You Should Know(American Academy of Family Physicians) - http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/articles/598.printerview.html
Also available in Spanish http://familydoctor.org/online/famdoces/home/articles/598.printerview.html
- Mitral Valve Prolapse(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/mitral-valve-prolapse/DS00504/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print
- Doppler Ultrasound: What Is It Used for?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/doppler-ultrasound/AN00511/METHOD=print
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Echocardiogram
(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/echocardiogram/htm/index.htm
Also available in Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/echocardiogramspanish/htm/index.htm -
Echocardiography
(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/echo/echo_whatis.html
- Mitral Valve Repair(Society of Thoracic Surgeons) - http://www.sts.org/sections/patientinformation/valvesurgery/mitralvalverepair/
- Mitral Valve Replacement(Society of Thoracic Surgeons) - http://www.sts.org/sections/patientinformation/valvesurgery/mitralvalvereplacement/
- Mitral Valve Regurgitation(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/mitral-valve-regurgitation/DS00421/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print
- New Guidelines Regarding Antibiotics to Prevent Infective Endocarditis(American Heart Association) - http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3047051
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Echocardiogram(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/echocardiogram/htm/index.htm
Also available in Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/echocardiogramspanish/htm/index.htm
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Mitral Valve Prolapse(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/mitralvalveprolapse/htm/index.htm
Also available in Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/mitralvalveprolapsespanish/htm/index.htm
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Beating Heart Mitral Valve Replacement(OR-Live) - Requires Flash Player - One hour program - 1/08/2008 - http://www.or-live.com/distributors/nlm-flash/mof_1983/rnh.cfm?id=623
- Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair(OR-Live) - Requires media player - One hour program - 03/09/2005 - http://www.or-live.com/distributors/NLM/rnh.cfm?id=164
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Mitral Valve Repair Surgery(OR-Live) - Requires Flash Player - One hour program - 8/22/2007 - http://www.or-live.com/distributors/NLM-Flash/lob_1791/rnh.cfm?id=628
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Mitral Valve Repair Surgery(OR-Live) - Requires Flash Player - One hour program - 10/23/2007 - http://www.or-live.com/distributors/nlm-flash/waf_1559/rnh.cfm?id=650
- Repair of Mitral Valve Regurgitation with an Annuloplasty Ring(OR-Live) - Requires media player - One hour program - 6/28/2006 - http://www.or-live.com/distributors/NLM/rnh.cfm?id=316
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Heart Anatomy(Texas Heart Institute) - http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/HIC/Anatomy/anatomy2.cfm
Also available in Spanish http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/HIC/Anatomy_Esp/anato_sp.cfm
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Mitral Valve Prolapse
(National Institutes of Health) - http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition=%22Mitral+Valve+Prolapse%22
- Article: Angiotensinogen M235T associated with mitral valve prolapse in young Han... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18794618&tool=MedlinePlus
- Article: Toward a new paradigm for the reconstruction of posterior leaflet... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18721552&tool=MedlinePlus
- Article: In the 1980s I was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse.... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18697238&tool=MedlinePlus
- Mitral Valve Prolapse -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=mitral+valve+prolapse[majr]+AND+humans[mh]+NOT+letter[pt]+AND+english[la]&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus
- Mitral Valve Prolapse - http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v:project=medlineplus&binning-state=group%3d%3dMedical%20Encyclopedia&query=Mitral+Valve+Prolapse
- Heart Surgery Terms(Society of Thoracic Surgeons) - http://www.sts.org/sections/patientinformation/otherresources/heartsurgterms/
- Find a Society of Thoracic Surgeons Member(Society of Thoracic Surgeons) - http://www.sts.org/sections/membership/findamember/
- American Heart Association - http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons - http://www.sts.org/sections/patientinformation/
- Mitral Valve Prolapse(Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/heart/mvp.html
- Heart Valve Diseases - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/heartvalvediseases.html
- Blood, Heart and Circulation - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bloodheartandcirculation.html
The primary NIH organization for research on Mitral Valve Prolapse is the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/