Cardiac rupture during stress echocardiography

Can J Cardiol. 2005 Nov;21(13):1217-9.

Abstract

A case of acute cardiac rupture during dobutamine stress echocardiography testing that was performed on the sixth day after admission for an acute inferoposterior myocardial infarction is reported. Following successful surgical repair, the postoperative course was complicated by severe mitral regurgitation secondary to papillary muscle rupture.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Echocardiography, Stress* / adverse effects
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / etiology*
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / etiology
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / physiopathology
  • Papillary Muscles*