blunt chest traumas mostly occur due to car accidents and can cause many cardiac complications such as septal rupture, free-wall rupture, coronary artery dissection or thrombosis, heart failure, arrhythmias, and chordae and papillary muscle rupture. one of the most serious complication is tricuspid regurgitation (tr), which can be simply diagnosed by physical examination and confirmed by echoca...

Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) caused by nonpenetrating trauma of the chest is rare. It has been seen more frequently in recent years, presumably because of the increase in automobile accidents and the availability of better diagnostic facilities. Since the first description by Williams in 1829, 31 cases have been reported, but surgical or necropsy proof of the condition was obtained in 23 only.1...

BACKGROUND Rupture of papillary muscle generally happens during acute myocardial infarction and is the cause of acute mitral regurgitation, pulmonary oedema, so it should be promptly recognized and managed. CASE REPORT A patient, 52 year-old, was admitted to the Thoracic Department with fever, general weakness, dyspnea and cough as a case of suspected pneumonia. Two days before the admission ...

We report a 13-year-old girl with acute pulmonary edema due to severe acute Mitral regurgitation because of rupture of Mitral valve ́s posteromedial papillary muscle. She had normal mitral valve with necrotic posteromedial papillary muscle, classic aneurysms in left coronary artery, neutrophilic infiltration in the wall of medium-sized vessel of kidney and positive perinuclear antineutrophil cyt...

BACKGROUND Rupture of a papillary muscle is an infrequent but often fatal mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction. AIM The aim of this paper is to present a case report of a 65-year old women with acute severe mitral regurgitation with cardiogenic shock caused by two-step complete anterior papillary muscle rupture during acute myocardial infarction. The transthoracic echocardio...

Rupture of a papillary muscle of the heart has been considered an unusual complication of myocardial infarction. Although first recognized as early as 1803, only 56 cases have been reported to date. The literature was reviewed by Davison’ in 1948. He added three cases to 26 previously reported. Other instances have been described by Glendy and White; Payne and Hardy; Askey ;2 Smith, Schwartz an...