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. 2016 Aug 16;9(8):e005030. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.005030

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Circ Cardiovasc Imaging is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-NoDervis License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited, the use is noncommercial, and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Figure 5. — Length of mitral annular disjunction (MAD) in sudden cardiac death (SCD) patients: controls vs mitral valve prolapse (MVP) patients. The length of MAD (measured as micrometers) in SCD patients with MVP is significantly higher than in controls (A). Representative histology of the mitral annulus showing the absence of MAD in a SCD control (B) as compared with an elongated MAD in a SCD patients with MVP (C).