Rupture of a Papillary Muscle of the Tricuspid Valve Following Acute Myocardial Infarction Report of a Case
- 1 October 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 30 (4), 588-591
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.30.4.588
Abstract
A case of rupture of a tricuspid papillary muscle due to myocardial infarction, apparently the first to be reported in the English literature, is presented. Anatomic, physiologic, and pathologic reasons for the rarity of such a rupture are advanced.Keywords
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