Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review

Blunt chest trauma is commonly encountered by surgeons and is rarely associated with cardiac injuries. The incidence of cardiac injury is rare but can be rapidly fatal, requiring prompt recognition and treatment. We review the case of a 37 year-old male who was involved in a head-on motor vehicle co...

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Autores principales: James, Mollie M, Verhofste, Marnix, Franklin, Cass, Beilman, Greg, Goldman, Charles
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20649988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-5-21
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author James, Mollie M
Verhofste, Marnix
Franklin, Cass
Beilman, Greg
Goldman, Charles
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description Blunt chest trauma is commonly encountered by surgeons and is rarely associated with cardiac injuries. The incidence of cardiac injury is rare but can be rapidly fatal, requiring prompt recognition and treatment. We review the case of a 37 year-old male who was involved in a head-on motor vehicle collision at highway speed and was found to have an isolated left main coronary artery dissection. We then review the supporting literature for evaluation of blunt cardiac injuries and the treatment options for traumatic coronary dissection.
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spelling pubmed-29147382010-08-04 Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review James, Mollie M Verhofste, Marnix Franklin, Cass Beilman, Greg Goldman, Charles World J Emerg Surg Review Blunt chest trauma is commonly encountered by surgeons and is rarely associated with cardiac injuries. The incidence of cardiac injury is rare but can be rapidly fatal, requiring prompt recognition and treatment. We review the case of a 37 year-old male who was involved in a head-on motor vehicle collision at highway speed and was found to have an isolated left main coronary artery dissection. We then review the supporting literature for evaluation of blunt cardiac injuries and the treatment options for traumatic coronary dissection. BioMed Central 2010-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2914738/ /pubmed/20649988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-5-21 Text en Copyright ©2010 James 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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James, Mollie M
Verhofste, Marnix
Franklin, Cass
Beilman, Greg
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Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review
title Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review
title_full Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review
title_fullStr Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review
title_short Dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: Case report and literature review
title_sort dissection of the left main coronary artery after blunt thoracic trauma: case report and literature review
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914738/
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