Post-traumatic coronary occlusion and its consequences in a young child
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E Cizmárová1, I Simkovic, J Zelenay
1Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty of Comenius University, Uprková, Czechoslovakia.
Pediatric Cardiology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 250-kg metal plate fell on a six-year-old boy. The resulting internal, nonpenetrating trauma caused multiple coronary arterial occlusions leading to complete heart block and ischemic changes in the electrocardiogram. Later two left ventricular aneurysms developed that were resected.