Intracardiac calcifications in patients with prior right coronary artery occlusion and mitral regurgitation should raise suspicion for posteromedial papillary muscle calcification and dysfunction.
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May raise suspicion for papillary muscle calcification in post-RCA mitral regurgitation; hypothesis-generating case report requiring confirmation.
Extensive papillary muscle calcification is quite a rare finding in echocardiographic examinations. A case of a 71 year old man with isolated calcification of the papillary muscles, detected by fluoroscopy and confirmed by echocardiography, is presented. Intracardiac calcifications in patients with prior right coronary artery occlusion and mitral regurgitation should suggest the possibility of posteromedial papillary muscle calcification and dysfunction.
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