Right ventricular papillary muscle rupture
by Nanda Navin C

Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography

by Navin C Nanda
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This video clip live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography shows the arrowhead points to the ruptured muscle which prolapses into the RA in diastole; color Doppler examination shows a large flow acceleration as well as a large vena contracta (arrow in) viewed en face and measuring 1.0 cm2 in area indicative of very severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR). The arrowhead in points to the prolapsing papillary muscle.

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