Incidence of ischemic heart disease among patients with mitral annulus calcification in Babylon province

Abstract EN

Background : MAC is a common finding in patient undergoes echo study; especially middle and old age group who undergo echo study for different reason .MAC is more common in patient with risk factor for ischemic heart disease.

Aim of study : to determine the incidence of ischemia diagnosed by TMT by Duke´s score among patients with mitral annulus calcification and to find the association between grade of mitral annulus calcification and IHD.

Material and methods: This study was hospital based cross sectional study carried out at outpatients echo unit at Merjan Medical City.

Patients who included in the study had negative past medical history with different symptom either chest pain or shortness of breath or dizziness.

Results: Out of 66 patients with mitral annulus calcification (62.1%) of them were male, (48.5 %) of them were diabetic, (62.1%) of them were hypertensive, (83.3 %) of them had hyperlipidemia, (40.9 %) of patients had grade 1 mitral annulus calcification.

The incidence of ischemic heart diseases diagnosed by TMT was (57.6 %).

There was significant association between TMT results and grades of mitral annulus calcification.

Conclusion : MAC is associated with IHD, grades of mitral annulus calcification are strongly associated with IHD and MAC frequently associated with multiple risk factor of IHD like hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.

Any patient with MAC should be search for IHD and risk factors of IHD.