• Emergency radiology · Jun 2011

    Case Reports

    Myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma: usefulness of cardiac ECG-gated CT and MRI for positive and aetiologic diagnosis.

    • Gregory Malbranque, Jean Michel Serfaty, Dominique Himbert, Philippe Gabriel Steg, and Jean Pierre Laissy.
    • Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Bichat APHP, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, Paris, France. gregory.malbranque@hotmail.fr
    • Emerg Radiol. 2011 Jun 1;18(3):271-4.

    AbstractMyocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma has been reported in only few cases, and mechanisms of this complication have rarely been described. We report two cases of coronary artery lesions, one parietal hematoma of right coronary artery and one dissection of the left main coronary artery, which resulted in acute myocardial infarction following a blunt chest trauma. In these two cases, cardiac CT and MRI were useful to noninvasively explore these lesions.

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