Open AccessCoronary artery dissection following chest trauma
Author(s) -
Manoj Kumar Agarwala,
Sundar Chidambaram,
Naveen K Gummadi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
heart india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2321-6638
pISSN - 2321-449X
DOI - 10.4103/2321-449x.178121
Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , myocardial infarction , asymptomatic , blunt , dissection (medical) , cardiology , hematoma , blunt trauma , artery , surgery
Chest trauma has a high rate of mortality. Coronary dissection causing myocardial infarction (MI) following blunt chest trauma is rare. We describe the case of an anterior MI following blunt chest trauma. A 39-year-old male was received in our hospital following a motorcycle accident. The patient was asymptomatic before the accident. The patient underwent craniotomy for evacuation of hematoma. He developed severe chest pain and an electrocardiogram (ECG) revealed anterior ST segment elevation following surgery. Acute coronary event was medically managed; subsequently, coronary angiogram was performed that showed dissection in the left anterior coronary artery, which was stented