Antonio Esposito, Marco Gatti, Maria Giovanna Trivieri, Eustachio Agricola, Giovanni Peretto, Guglielmo Gallone, Federica Catapano, Silvia Pradella, Ana Devesa, Elisa Bruno, Giorgio Fiore, Marco Francone, Anna Palmisano
Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is the most common valve disease in the western world and recently emerged as a possible substrate for sudden cardiac death (SCD). It is estimated an annual risk of sudden cardiac death of 0.2 to 1.9% mostly caused by complex ventricular arrhythmias (VA). Several mechanisms have been recognized as potentially responsible for arrhythmia onset in MVP, resulting from the combination of morpho-functional abnormality of the mitral valve, structural substrates (regional myocardial hypertrophy, fibrosis, Purkinje fibers activity, inflammation), and mechanical stretch...
December 11, 2023: European Radiology