SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF A PAPILLARY MUSCLE OF THE HEART

Spontaneous rupture of a papillary muscle.

A n 86-year-old woman without any history of heart disease or trauma to the chest experienced an acute onset of dyspnea associated with a productive cough for 2 hours. Her medical history revealed that she was hypertensive for the past 20 years. Her blood pressure was 90 mm Hg in systole and 50 mm Hg in diastole. Immediately after admission, mechanical ventilation was initiated because there wa...

Spontaneous Rupture of the Heart

Ischemic rupture of the anterolateral papillary muscle.

We describe the case of a 59-year-old man who presented with chest pain and ST-segment elevation in the inferior leads, R>S in V1 and ST depression in the anterior leads due to proximal occlusion of the first obtuse marginal. Primary coronary angioplasty and stenting of this artery were performed. Twelve hours later the patient became hemodynamically unstable and severe mitral regurgitation due...

Traumatic rupture of a papillary muscle of the heart. Report of a case.

Grand Rapids, Michigan RUPTURE OF A PAPILLARY MUSCLE OF the heart is a rarely recorded event. Most cases arc secondary to myocardial infarction. We recently encountered a case in which the mptum was secondary to trauma, and we fed that it is worthy of presentation. If the diagnosis can be made rapidly, this is a potentially comctablc lesion. CASE REPOPT A 22-year-old white man was admitted to B...

the effect of consciousness raising (c-r) on the reduction of translational errors: a case study

در دوره های آموزش ترجمه استادان بیشتر سعی دارند دانشجویان را با انواع متون آشنا سازند، درحالی که کمتر به خطاهای مکرر آنان در متن ترجمه شده می پردازند. اهمیت تحقیق حاضر مبنی بر ارتکاب مکرر خطاهای ترجمانی حتی بعد از گذراندن دوره های تخصصی ترجمه از سوی دانشجویان است. هدف از آن تاکید بر خطاهای رایج میان دانشجویان مترجمی و کاهش این خطاها با افزایش آگاهی و هوشیاری دانشجویان از بروز آنها است.از آنجا ک...