Ultrasound Registry Review (URR) MV Abnormalities And Disease Practice Test

With MVP, leaflets are described as ______.

Redundant Stiff Calcified Normal

Correct Answer:

Redundant

Explanation:

Mitral valve prolapse involves myxomatous degeneration that makes the leaflets floppy and excess in tissue. This results in the leaflets being described as redundant—there is more leaflet tissue than normal, allowing them to billow and prolapse into the left atrium during systole. Stiff or calcified leaflets point to different diseases, and normal would not describe an abnormal prolapse. So the best description for MVP leaflets is redundant.

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