Anterolateral papillary muscle rupture: Diagnosis and successful treatment (A case report)

Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-144

  Apetrei, Eduard ^a   Rugina, Mihaela ^a   Iliescu, Vlad ^b   Deleanu, Dan ^a   Miclea, Ion ^b   Filipescu, Daniela ^b   Chioncel, Ovidiu ^a   Mereuta, Adrian ^a  

^a Department of Cardiology Bucharest ^*  (Romania)

^b Department of Cardiology   (Romania)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Rupture of papillary muscle; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE RUPTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036214817     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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