What is the association between mitral-valve prolapse and stroke in young patients?
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1999 found no evidence of an association between mitral-valve prolapse and stroke in young patients. A 1995 study published in Stroke also found no correlation between mitral valve prolapse and stroke, and two other studies published in Stroke and the American Journal of Cardiology in 2005 and 1995, respectively, also found no significant association between the two conditions. Thus, the current evidence suggests that there is no association between mitral-valve prolapse and stroke in young patients.