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Myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma: usefulness of cardiac ECG-gated CT and MRI for positive and aetiologic diagnosis

Authors: Gregory Malbranque, Jean Michel Serfaty, Dominique Himbert, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Jean Pierre Laissy

Published in: Emergency Radiology | Issue 3/2011

Abstract

Myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma has been reported in only few cases, and mechanisms of this complication have rarely been described. We report two cases of coronary artery lesions, one parietal hematoma of right coronary artery and one dissection of the left main coronary artery, which resulted in acute myocardial infarction following a blunt chest trauma. In these two cases, cardiac CT and MRI were useful to noninvasively explore these lesions.

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Title: Myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma: usefulness of cardiac ECG-gated CT and MRI for positive and aetiologic diagnosis
Authors: Gregory Malbranque
Jean Michel Serfaty
Dominique Himbert
Philippe Gabriel Steg
Jean Pierre Laissy
Publication date: 01-06-2011
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Emergency Radiology / Issue 3/2011
Print ISSN: 1070-3004
Electronic ISSN: 1438-1435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-010-0925-4

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