Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum and Mitral-Valve Prolapse

Reed E. Pyeritz; James L. Weiss; William A. Renie; Sturart L. Fine; Mark G. Lebwohl; Douglas Distefano; Philip G. Prioleau; Martin Uram; Lawrence A. Yannuzzi; Raul Fleischmajer

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Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum and Mitral-Valve Prolapse

Reed E. Pyeritz, James L. Weiss, William A. Renie, Sturart L. Fine, Mark G. Lebwohl, Douglas Distefano, Philip G. Prioleau, Martin Uram, Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, Raul Fleischmajer

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To the Editor: Lebwohl and colleagues¹ performed M-mode echocardiography on 14 patients affected by pseudoxanthoma elasticum and found mitral-valve prolapse in 11 (71 per cent) (July 22 issue). We are conducting a multidisciplinary assessment of pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Preliminary results (unpublished) of cardiologic examinations in 28 unrelated patients do not confirm this high prevalence of mitral-valve prolapse. None of the 17 women or 11 men (mean age, 43.3 years; range, 13 to 71 years) hada systolic click, and only one had an apical systolic murmur. M-mode echocardiograms in 16 patients showed mitral-valve prolapse in 1. Two-dimensional echocardiograms in 26 patients.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1451-1452
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	307
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198212023072315
State	Published - 2 Dec 1982

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