Diagnosis of coronary artery dissection following blunt chest trauma by transesophageal echocardiography.
How 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.
D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000293:injuries*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*