A Case of Blunt Trauma-induced ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Sustained During a Prison Brawl

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a serious and time-sensitive condition. MIs are typically seen in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and are caused by the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque due to factors contributing to plaque instability. However, this case illustrates that plaque rupture...

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Autores principales: Clark, Zachary T, Thiel, Natalie, Perry, John, Minckler, Michael R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133256
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6733
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description Myocardial infarction (MI) is a serious and time-sensitive condition. MIs are typically seen in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and are caused by the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque due to factors contributing to plaque instability. However, this case illustrates that plaque rupture can also be caused by blunt trauma to the chest. Considering MI as a possible result of chest trauma may decrease time from presentation to diagnosis and treatment and, therefore, improve outcomes in similar cases, particularly when patients presents unusually or with very few risk factors for MI.
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spelling pubmed-70347512020-03-04 A Case of Blunt Trauma-induced ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Sustained During a Prison Brawl Clark, Zachary T Thiel, Natalie Perry, John Minckler, Michael R Cureus Cardiology Myocardial infarction (MI) is a serious and time-sensitive condition. MIs are typically seen in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and are caused by the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque due to factors contributing to plaque instability. However, this case illustrates that plaque rupture can also be caused by blunt trauma to the chest. Considering MI as a possible result of chest trauma may decrease time from presentation to diagnosis and treatment and, therefore, improve outcomes in similar cases, particularly when patients presents unusually or with very few risk factors for MI. Cureus 2020-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7034751/ /pubmed/32133256 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6733 Text en Copyright © 2020, Clark et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Case of Blunt Trauma-induced ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Sustained During a Prison Brawl
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title_short A Case of Blunt Trauma-induced ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Sustained During a Prison Brawl
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