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Case Reports
. 2022 Jul 3:15:84-86.
doi: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2022.06.012. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Ischemic dual papillary muscle rupture in a postpartum patient with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

J Mark Erfe  1 , Paul Devlin  1 , Jonathan Rich  1 , Lisa Wilsbacher  1 , Daniel Schimmel  1 , Patrick McCarthy  1 , Amit Pawale  1   2
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Ischemic dual papillary muscle rupture in a postpartum patient with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

J Mark Erfe et al. JTCVS Tech. .
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A, ST elevations. B and C, SCAD on LHC. D through H, Papillary muscle rupture and repair.
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Figure 1
A, Diffuse ST depressions in electrocardiogram. B and C, spontaneous coronary artery dissection of left anterior descending artery and obtuse marginal artery on coronary angiogram. D, Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiogram showing bileaflet mitral flail with ruptured papillary muscles. E and F, Ruptured papillary muscles to both leaflets on direct inspection. G, Prosthetic mitral valve thrombosis. H, Predischarge transthoracic echocardiogram showing no mitral regurgitation and mild mitral stenosis.
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