Restrictive mitral annuloplasty in refractory cardiogenic shock with acute postinfarction mitral insufficiency and intact papillary muscle

Isolated acute papillary muscle infarcti

Isolated acute papillary muscle infarction in the absence of coronary artery disease resulting in cardiogenic shock and emergent mitral valve replacement

✍ Weiss, Stephen R. ;Coppola, John ;Gambino, John ;Nahal, Ayoub 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 413 KB 👁 1 views

A 76-year-old woman presented to our institution with shortness of breath, weakness, and syncope. Evaluation revealed severe mitral regurgitation and cardiogenic shock secondary to a flail posterior mitral valve leaflet. An emergency cardiac catheterization did not demonstrate significant coronary a