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Chest, Vol 68, 843-844, Copyright © 1975 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Myocardial embolus to coronary artery: result of rupture of papillary muscle during acute myocardial infarction

WJ Hammer, VJ Ferrans and WC Roberts

A patient is described with acute myocardial infarction complicated by rupture of a papillary muscle. A surprise finding at necropsy was a fragment of necrotic myocardium, similar to that at the site of papillary muscle rupture, in one coronary artery. Myocardial embolism to a coronary artery has not been described previously to our knowledge.




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