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Papillary Muscle Rupture Secondary to Infective Endocarditis
Author(s) -
Nurkalem Zekeriya,
Gorgulu Sevket,
Orhan Ahmet L.,
Demirci Duygu E.,
Sargin Murat,
Gumrukcu Gulistan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00710.x
Subject(s) - infective endocarditis , papillary muscle , complication , medicine , endocarditis , surgery , cardiology
Rupture of the mitral papillary muscle due to infective endocarditis is a very rare complication. There is no report regarding anterolateral papillary muscle rupture as a complication of infective endocarditis in the literature. We decided to report a case of anterolateral papillary muscle rupture due to infective endocarditis. Our case, which will be discussed later on, differs also in many ways from that in the literature.