Anterolateral papillary muscle rupture as a rare complication of unusual
infective endocarditis
- Salma Charfeddine,
- Syrine Triki,
- Majdi Gueldiche ,
- Tarak Ellouze,
- Faten Triki,
- leila Abid
Abstract
The rupture of mitral papillary muscles is a very rare complication of
the infective endocarditis. We report a case of anterolateral papillary
muscle rupture resulting in severe mitral regurgitation, due to
infective endocarditis in a young man without previous heart disease.
