Spontaneous Rupture Of A Papillary Muscle

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Case description

Transthoracic echocardiography apical view shows the mutilated posteromedial papillary muscle with flail anterior mitral leaflet and hyperkinetic left ventricular walls. (Rupture was spontaneous - without specific aetiology i.e.: myocardial infarction, endomyocarditis or sudden deceleration or trauma....) Video by Maged Al Ali MD.

tags: echocardiography Echocardiography Cases Echocardiography clinical case echocardiography video case tte

related terms: flail anterior leaflet, papillary muscle rupture


Mateusz Mościński
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Mateusz Mościński

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