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Obstructive intramural coronary amyloidosis and papillary muscle rupture
1Department of Cardiology, La Miletrie University Hospital, Poitiers, France. d.coisne@chu-poitiers.fr
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
|January 16, 2003
Abstract:
Mitral papillary muscle rupture is usually caused by ischaemia as a complication of myocardial infarction. In a 76 year old patient with no significant disease or major cardiovascular risk factors, papillary muscle rupture was caused by obstructive intramural coronary amyloidosis, an unusual cause.