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Case Reports
. 2005 Nov;21(13):1217-9.

Cardiac rupture during stress echocardiography

S N Nadeem  1 , Khurshid Hassan, Khawar Abbas Kazmi, Hasanat M Sharif, Blair O'Neill
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  • PMID: 16308600
Case Reports

Cardiac rupture during stress echocardiography

S N Nadeem et al. Can J Cardiol. 2005 Nov.

Abstract

A case of acute cardiac rupture during dobutamine stress echocardiography testing that was performed on the sixth day after admission for an acute inferoposterior myocardial infarction is reported. Following successful surgical repair, the postoperative course was complicated by severe mitral regurgitation secondary to papillary muscle rupture.

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