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Spontaneous Pneumothorax Valve Prolapse*

and Mitral

Shaul Z. Margaliot, M.D.;Joshua Barzilay, M.D.; Mordechai Bar-David, M.D.; Basil S. Lewis, M.D.; David Forecast, M.D.; and Moshe Gross, M.D.

We

searched

for

spontaneous may

valve

prolapse in patients with the hypothesis that both disorder of connective tissue.

mitral

pneumothorax

be

part

of

to test

a common

Echocardiographic mitral percent) of 22 patients pneumothorax

Paul

valve

prolapse

who

compared

to

had four

found

was

suffered (10

inil

(50

spontaneous

percent)

of

40

matched control subjects (p