ANTEROLATERAL PAPILLARY MUSCLE RUPTURE AS A RESULT OF SINGLE-VESSEL CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE WITHOUT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Volume 30, Number 1 (2020)

Aleksejus Zorinas, Donatas Austys, Vilius Janušauskas, Zita Butkienė, Rimantas Stukas, Robertas Stasys Samalavičius, Kęstutis Ručinskas Abstract The rupture of a papillary muscle is usually associated with the previous occurrence of myocardial infarction, but it may have another etiology. The authors of this article have found no reports about anterolateral papillary muscle rupture caused by a…