Title |
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance of myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma: a heartbreaking soccer-shot
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Published in |
Critical Reviews in Diagnostic Imaging, October 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1532-429x-11-39 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Hannibal Baccouche, Torsten Beck, Martin Maunz, Peter Fogarassy, Martin Beyer |
Abstract |
Cardiac injury occasionally occurs as a result of blunt chest trauma. Most cardiac complications in chest trauma are due to myocardial contusion rather than direct damage to the coronary arteries. However, traumatic coronary injury has been reported, and a variety of underlying pathophysiological mechanisms have been proposed. We present a 26 year old patient presenting with an acute coronary syndrome as a consequence of a soccer-shot impact to the chest. CMR showed apical inferior infarction, as well as multiple small septal lesions which were presumed to have resulted from embolization. The culprit lesion was a proximal 75% LAD stenosis with a prominent plaque-rupture and thrombus-formation, and the distal LAD was occluded by thromboembolic material. |
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