The traditional approach to the ECG diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is
focused on the best estimation of left ventricular mass (LVM) ie finding ECG criteria that …

Background: Coronary artery dissection after blunt chest trauma is a rare, life-threatening
condition. Objectives: To present a case of coronary artery dissection after blunt chest …

Cardiac MDCT is here to stay. And, it is more than just imaging coronary arteries.
Understanding the differences in and the benefits of one CT scanner from another will help …

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 …

Blunt chest trauma might lead to cardiac injury ranging from simple arrhythmias to lethal
conditions such as cardiac rupture. We experienced a case of initially overlooked traumatic …

Myocardial infarction (MI) following blunt chest trauma is rare, but potentially fatal. We
treated a young patient for acute MI after falling chest-first on ice while playing hockey …

Unser Fall zeigt erstmals die Diagnostik eines akuten Myokardinfarkts als Unfallursache in
der Polytrauma-Computertomographie im Rahmen des Schockraummanagements. Dabei …

Background Coronary artery dissection is a rare complication of blunt thoracic trauma which
can become rapidly lethal necessitating prompt diagnosis and treatment. Most reported …

In posttraumatic coronary dissection, a small intimal tear occurs due to the sudden
compression of the thoracic wall during the chest trauma, this being sometimes fatal. We …

We present for the first time the use of contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography in
trauma care to detect acute myocardial infarction and verify it as the cause of a traffic …