1. Anterolateral papillary muscle rupture caused by myocardial infarction: A case report
- Author
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Saygin Turkyilmaz, Ahmet Akgül, Emrah Ereren, İbrahim Gürkan Kömürcü, and Ali Aycan Kavala
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Mitral valve replacement ,Transesophageal echocardiogram ,medicine.disease ,Chest pain ,Coronary artery disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Mitral valve ,Internal medicine ,cardiovascular system ,medicine ,Cardiology ,cardiovascular diseases ,Myocardial infarction ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Papillary muscle ,Artery - Abstract
The rupture of the anterolateral papillary muscle is less common than the posteromedial papillary muscle, as the anterolateral muscle has dual blood supply, whereas the posteromedial papillary muscle has a single blood supply. We present a a 49 years old male patient who has presented with chest pain and dyspnoea. A transesophageal echocardiogram was performed which showed that the mitral valve was normal in thickness with a flail anterior leaflet not coapting with the posterior leaflet due to the coronary artery disease. The patient underwent a mitral valve replacement and left anterior coronary artery and obtuse marginal bypass grafting.
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- 2015