Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Dissection following Blunt Chest Trauma by Transesophageal Echocardiography
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
- Vol. 39 (4) , 772-774
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-199510000-00032
Abstract
How to differentiate relevant from trivial cardiac injury in blunt chest trauma has been an ongoing debate. In a 32-year-old victim of a motorcycle crash, the electrocardiographic pattern of an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction was identified as being due to a dissection, after an intimal flap in the proximal left anterior descending artery was noted on transesophageal echocardiography.Keywords
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