Open AccessAcute myocardial infarction following right coronary artery dissection due to blunt trauma
Author(s) -
Ronnie Mubang,
W. T. Hillman Terzian,
James Cipolla,
Scott Keeney,
John J. Lukaszczyk,
Stanislaw P Stawicki
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
heart views
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-5123
pISSN - 1995-705X
DOI - 10.4103/1995-705x.182646
Subject(s) - medicine , blunt , myocardial infarction , right coronary artery , cardiology , sinus tachycardia , artery dissection , dissection (medical) , blunt trauma , coronary sinus , heart rupture , surgery , coronary angiography
Despite the frequent occurrence of blunt chest trauma, associated cardiac injuries are relatively rare. The most common presentation of blunt cardiac injury is benign arrhythmia (e.g., sinus tachycardia), followed in decreasing frequency by increasingly severe arrhythmias and finally physically evident injuries to the heart muscle, the conducting system, cardiac valves, and/or coronary vessels. Here we present an unusual case of a patient who sustained a right coronary artery dissection and associated acute myocardial infarction following a motor vehicle crash.