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Complications

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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These include:

  • congestive heart failure due to progressive mitral regurgitation (3 to 10% of patients with symptomatic mitral valve prolapse)
  • infective endocarditis (in 2-8% of patients with mitral valve prolapse)
  • cerebral emboli
  • sudden death - this is extremely rare in patients with mitral valve prolapse and is usually due to sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation

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