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Figure 6 A patient with trace mitral regurgitation (MR) despite poor papillary muscle (PM) function shown by absent systolic PM thickening on two-dimensional echocardiography (left upper and lower panels) and systolic PM longitudinal elongation as assessed by strain imaging (right panel). The medial PM tethering distance (arrows) is normal and can explain the lack of significant MR.