MyocardiaI Infarction, PapiIIary MuscIe Dysfunction and Mitral Valvular incompetence in Systemic Lupus Erythaematosus

Summary: Myocardial infarction, papillary muscle dysfunction and mitral valvular incompetence in systemic lupus erthaematosus. L. P. Bignold, I. K. Bailey and H. Kronenberg, Aust. N.Z. J. Med., 1980, 10, pp. 236–239. A fatal case of systemic lupus erythaematosus complicated by myocardial infarction, papillary muscle dysfunction and mitral incompetence seven months before death is reported. Necropsy examination of the heart revealed that the infarct was due to multiple occlusive thrombi in epicardial branches of the corresponding coronary artery. No evidence of atherosclerosis or previous coronary arteritis was present