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MAD was initially associated with sudden cardiac death and ventricular arrhythmias in patients with mitral valve prolapse, whereas in more recent studies, it has been presented as a normal variant of the mitral annulus.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Case summary<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In the present series of two cases, we show a case featuring a young woman with syncope that showed a microscopic MAD on echocardiography but, after a thorough multimodality assessment, was diagnosed with a coronary anomaly responsible for her presentation. In the second case, a young man presenting with aborted sudden cardiac death was found to have a macroscopic MAD in the context of mitral valve prolapse with numerous high-risk arrhythmic features.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The need for assessing the diverse significance of MAD in the clinical and imaging context of each patient is underscored. 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