Delayed acute myocardial infarction in a young man with traumatic multivessel coronary artery dissection after blunt chest injury.
Mohd Asyiq Al-Fard RaffaliMohd Imree AzmiSyawal Faizal MuhammadHamat Hamdi Che HassanPublished in: BMJ case reports (2024)
A man in his 20s with no medical illness sustained a blunt chest injury with pneumothorax and lung contusion after involving in a motorbike accident. Five days postadmission, he subsequently had myocardial infarction with cardiac arrest, in which coronary angiogram and intravascular ultrasound showed diffused multivessel coronary artery dissection.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- acute myocardial infarction
- cardiac arrest
- pulmonary artery
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- left ventricular
- trauma patients
- coronary artery disease
- spinal cord injury
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- spinal cord
- healthcare
- acute coronary syndrome
- magnetic resonance imaging
- coronary artery bypass
- heart failure
- middle aged
- atrial fibrillation
- pulmonary hypertension