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Post traumatic myocardial infarction
1Centre Hospitalier de la Basse Sambre, Service de Médecine Interne, Sambreville, Belgique.
Acta Clinica Belgica
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report the history of a young man who developed an acute anterolateral myocardial infarction secondary to blunt chest trauma in an automobile accident. Arteriography demonstrated that the patient had sustained a left anterior descending artery tear and a coronary-ventricular fistula from the first septal branch. Different pathogenetic mechanisms with their specific complications and diagnostic features are discussed.