Myocardial embolus to coronary artery: result of rupture of papillary muscle during acute myocardial infarction.
A patient is described with acute myocardial infarction complicated by rupture of a papillary muscle. A surprise finding at necropsy was a fragment of necrotic myocardium, similar to that at the site of papillary muscle rupture, in one coronary artery. Myocardial embolism to a coronary artery has not been described previously to our knowledge.
D000368:Aged; D001158:Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D004617:Embolism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous