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  • Title: [Biventricular massive infarction with rupture of a mitral papillary muscle and a tricuspid papillary muscle].
    Author: Perrault MA, Leclercq JF, Masquet C, Nitenberg G, Slama R, Bouvrain Y.
    Journal: Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss; 1977 Oct; 70(10):1091-5. PubMed ID: 413518.
    Abstract:
    The authors report the case of a man of 62 who was admitted with a clinical and electrocardiographic picture of a posterior infarction which was very soon complicated by collapse and anuria. The findings on catheterisation of the right side of the heart were as expected. The cardiac index was very low, and the major abnormality was a type of adiastole with equal pressures in the right ventricle and the auricle of the right atrium. Despite an attempt to assist the circulation by an intra-aortic ballon, the patient died within a few hours. The postmortem examination confirmed the presence of a massive infarction of the left ventricle, but also of the right ventricle, together with rupture of the posterior papillary muscle of the mitral valve, and ischaemic rupture of one papillary muscle of the tricuspid valve.
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