Partial Posteromedial Papillary Muscle Rupture Caused by Myocardial Ischemia Only without Myocardial Infarction

Echocardiography. 2016 Jul;33(7):1105-7. doi: 10.1111/echo.13223. Epub 2016 Mar 27.

Authors

Masanaga Tsujimoto¹, Hidekazu Tanaka¹, Kensuke Matsumoto¹, Takeshi Inoue², Yutaka Okita², Ken-Ichi Hirata¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
² Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.

PMID: 27018387
DOI: 10.1111/echo.13223

No abstract available

Keywords: echocardiography; heart failure; mitral insufficiency; mitral valve prolapse; myocardial ischemia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

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Cardiomyopathies / diagnostic imaging*
Cardiomyopathies / etiology*
Coronary Angiography / methods
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography / methods*
Female
Humans
Myocardial Infarction
Myocardial Ischemia / complications*
Myocardial Ischemia / diagnostic imaging*
Papillary Muscles / diagnostic imaging*
Rupture, Spontaneous / diagnostic imaging
Rupture, Spontaneous / etiology