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Subjects who experience this complication are in general young women, with thickened mitral leaflets or bileaflet prolapse not necessarily associated with severe mitral regurgitation (MR). The nature of the relation between MVP and cardiac arrest is not clearly understood. Actually, the challenging task is to find the cluster of prognostic factors including T-wave inversion, polymorphic premature ventricular contractions, bileaflet prolapse, MR severity, but most importantly, those parameters of hypercontractility, mitral annulus disjunction (MAD), and myocardial fibrosis using a multimodality approach. Transthoracic echocardiography is the first-line imaging modality for the diagnosis of MVP, but also for detecting MAD and hypercontractility, followed by cardiac magnetic resonance for tissue characterization and detection of myocardial and papillary muscle fibrosis, using either late gadolinium enhancement (at the basal segment of the inferolateral wall and papillary muscles) (macro-fibrosis), or diffuse fibrosis by T1 mapping (native and post contrast T1). Moreover, there are also preliminary data on positron emission tomography utilizing 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose as a tool for providing evidence of early myocardial inflammation. The objective of this review article is to provide the clinician with an overview and a practical clinical approach to MVP for risk stratification and treatment guidance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm11020455","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]],"date-time":"2022-01-17T08:20:42Z","timestamp":1642407642000},"page":"455","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Diagnosis of Mitral Valve Prolapse: Much More than Simple Prolapse. 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