Double postinfarction cardiac rupture of left ventricular free wall and papillary muscle documented by transthoracic echocardiography

M Ballet-Méchain; C Gayet; T Perret; J Ninet; P Chapon; G Trémeau; M Viallet; H Milon

doi:10.1016/s0894-7317(98)70161-0

Double postinfarction cardiac rupture of left ventricular free wall and papillary muscle documented by transthoracic echocardiography

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1998 Nov;11(11):1084-6. doi: 10.1016/s0894-7317(98)70161-0.

Authors

M Ballet-Méchain¹, C Gayet, T Perret, J Ninet, P Chapon, G Trémeau, M Viallet, H Milon

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, and the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hôpital Cardiovasculaire et Pneumologique, Lyon, France.

PMID: 9812103
DOI: 10.1016/s0894-7317(98)70161-0

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Echocardiography*
Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / pathology
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Heart Ventricles / pathology
Humans
Male
Papillary Muscles / diagnostic imaging
Papillary Muscles / pathology