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Myocardial infarction caused by coronary artery damage from blunt chest injury.
  1. S D Pringle,
  2. K G Davidson

    Abstract

    A case is reported in which blunt chest injury caused an intimal tear in the left anterior descending coronary artery. Despite few external signs of injury the patient sustained a myocardial infarction resulting in life threatening arrhythmias and considerable left ventricular dysfunction.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.57.4.375

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