Nurkalem Zekeriya, Gorgulu Sevket, Orhan Ahmet L, Demirci Duygu E, Sargin Murat, Gumrukcu Gulistan
Department of Cardiology, Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Echocardiography. 2008 Sep;25(8):901-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00710.x.
Rupture of the mitral papillary muscle due to infective endocarditis is a very rare complication. There is no report regarding anterolateral papillary muscle rupture as a complication of infective endocarditis in the literature. We decided to report a case of anterolateral papillary muscle rupture due to infective endocarditis. Our case, which will be discussed later on, differs also in many ways from that in the literature.
