[Acute posttraumatic myocardial infarct: the necessity of an early interventionist posture]

We describe five cases of posttraumatic anterior acute myocardial infarction in young patients, without previous heart disease. One case was treated with intracoronary thrombolysis and angioplasty, 3 cases received systemic thrombolysis, and the last one did not have any re-permeabilization therapy, having arrived to the hospital 72 hours after the episode. The coronary angiograms showed at the left anterior descending artery: thrombosis in 3 cases, coronary dissection in one case, and slow flow with no morphological lesions in the other. The case which not received thrombolytic therapy developed a severe left ventricular dysfunction. In conclusion we emphasize an early angiographic study, in order to decide the re-permeabilization therapy.