Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma

Blunt chest traumas are a clinical challenge, both for diagnosis and treatment. The use of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance can play a major role in this setting. We present two cases: a 12-year-old boy and 45-year-old man. Late gadolinium enhancement imaging enabled visualization of myocardial dam...

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Autores principales: Huguet, Marina, Tobon-Gomez, Catalina, Bijnens, Bart H, Frangi, Alejandro F, Petit, Marius
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19761581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-11-35
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author Huguet, Marina
Tobon-Gomez, Catalina
Bijnens, Bart H
Frangi, Alejandro F
Petit, Marius
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Bijnens, Bart H
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description Blunt chest traumas are a clinical challenge, both for diagnosis and treatment. The use of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance can play a major role in this setting. We present two cases: a 12-year-old boy and 45-year-old man. Late gadolinium enhancement imaging enabled visualization of myocardial damage resulting from the trauma.
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spelling pubmed-27629672009-10-17 Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma Huguet, Marina Tobon-Gomez, Catalina Bijnens, Bart H Frangi, Alejandro F Petit, Marius J Cardiovasc Magn Reson Case Report Blunt chest traumas are a clinical challenge, both for diagnosis and treatment. The use of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance can play a major role in this setting. We present two cases: a 12-year-old boy and 45-year-old man. Late gadolinium enhancement imaging enabled visualization of myocardial damage resulting from the trauma. BioMed Central 2009-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2762967/ /pubmed/19761581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-11-35 Text en Copyright © 2009 Huguet et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Huguet, Marina
Tobon-Gomez, Catalina
Bijnens, Bart H
Frangi, Alejandro F
Petit, Marius
Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma
title Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma
title_full Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma
title_fullStr Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma
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title_short Cardiac injuries in blunt chest trauma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19761581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-11-35
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