title: Cardiac rupture during stress echocardiography.
abstract: A case of acute cardiac rupture during dobutamine stress echocardiography testing that was performed on the sixth day after admission for an acute inferoposterior myocardial infarction is reported. Following successful surgical repair, the postoperative course was complicated by severe mitral regurgitation secondary to papillary muscle rupture.
authors.affiliation: Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. najaf.nadeem@aku.edu
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Nadeem
authors.forename: Khurshid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.forename: Khawar Abbas
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Kazmi
authors.forename: Hasanat M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Sharif
authors.forename: Blair
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: O'Neill
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress / Q000009:adverse effects; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D010210:Papillary Muscles