• J Trauma · Oct 1995

    Case Reports

    Diagnosis of coronary artery dissection following blunt chest trauma by transesophageal echocardiography.

    • W J Cherng, M J Bullard, H J Chang, and F C Lin.
    • Department of Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
    • J Trauma. 1995 Oct 1; 39 (4): 772774772-4.

    AbstractHow to differentiate relevant from trivial cardiac injury in blunt chest trauma has been an ongoing debate. In a 32-year-old victim of a motorcycle crash, the electrocardiographic pattern of an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction was identified as being due to a dissection, after an intimal flap in the proximal left anterior descending artery was noted on transesophageal echocardiography.

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