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From Isolated Dyspnea to Catastrophic Mechanical Complication: Posteromedial Papillary Muscle Rupture Following Subtle Inferior STEMI

Chadbellah Imane, Ouaziz Mariam, El Fathi Asmaa, Ait Yahya Abdelkarim, El Jamili Mohamed, El Karimi Saloua & El Hattaoui Mustapha · Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal · 2026

Background: Papillary muscle rupture (PMR) is a rare but rapidly fatal mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction (MI) that may occur even after apparently limited ischemia. In the contemporary reperfusion era, its incidence is estimated between 0.05% and 0.26% of MIs...