Delayed acute myocardial infarction in a young man with traumatic multivessel coronary artery dissection after blunt chest injury

Raffali MAA 1 , Azmi MI 2 , Muhammad SF 3 , Che Hassan HH 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bandar Tun Razak, Malaysia ashkashick@yahoo.com
  • 2 Department of Radiology, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bandr Tun Razak, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bandar Tun Razak, Malaysia
BMJ Case Rep, 2024 Apr 29;17(4).
PMID: 38684352 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2024-260649

Abstract

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.

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