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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kamada T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6306573 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cardiology cases 20181207 6
A 73-year-old woman in cardiogenic shock was referred to our hospital because of papillary muscle rupture immediately after the onset of acute myocardial infarction (MI). She had undergone emergent percutaneous coronary intervention and mitral valve replacement. Serial creatine kinase and creatine kinase MB levels indicated that she had acute phase MI on arrival. Pathological findings showed coagulative necrosis of the papillary muscle, which was characteristic evidence of the consequence of pro ...[more]