Mitral valve prolapse in a patient with epidermolysis bullosa.
Mitral valve prolapse has been associated with several connective tissue and developmental disorders, including Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan's disease; pseudo-xanthoma elasticum, myotonic dystrophy, cardiomyopathy, Ebstein's anomaly of the tricuspid valve and atrial septal defect of the ostium secundum variety. Presented here is a case of mitral valve prolapse in a patient with epidermolysis bullosa. The author is unaware of any previously reported cases of this association.
St Thomas's Hospital, London.
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Banerjee
D000328:Adult; D004820:Epidermolysis Bullosa / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008945:Mitral Valve Prolapse / Q000150:complications*