Double postinfarction cardiac rupture of left ventricular free wall and papillary muscle documented by transthoracic echocardiography.
A 70-year-old man presented with a posteroinferolateral acute myocardial infarction complicated by rupture of the left ventricular inferior wall and partial rupture of the posteromedial papillary muscle. Transthoracic echocardiography documented both of these complications and led to prompt and successful surgical repair.
Ballet-Méchain
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Department of Cardiology, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, and the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hôpital Cardiovasculaire et Pneumologique, Lyon, France.
Gayet
C
C
Perret
T
T
Ninet
J
J
Chapon
P
P
Trémeau
G
G
Viallet
M
M
Milon
H
H
D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology