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Figure 5 A patient with significant ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) despite good papillary muscle (PM) function shown by normal systolic PM thickening on two-dimensional echocardiography (left upper and lower panels) and normal systolic PM longitudinal shortening with strain imaging (right panel). The medial PM tethering distance (arrows) is long and can explain the MR.