Author/Authors :
Bilge, Mehmet Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Clinic of Cardiology, Turkey , Bilge, Mehmet Yıldırım Beyazıt University - Faculty of Medicine, Clinic of Cardiology, Turkey , Alemdar, Recai Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Clinic of Cardiology, Turkey , Ali, Sina Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Clinic of Cardiology, Turkey , Yaşar, Ayşe Saatcı Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Clinic of Cardiology, Turkey
Abstract :
Papillary muscle rupture (PMR) is usually associated with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and rarely seen as the only clinical and echocardiographic finding (1). If PMR is treated medically, the prognosis is very poor (2). However, even with surgery, it carries a high mortality (3). We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of mitral valve repair with the MitraClip system of subacute severe MR with flail anterior mitral valve leaflet caused by PMR.
