You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 55, Issue 4
  • Myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma incurred during rugby football that later required cardiac transplantation.

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Research Article
Myocardial infarction after blunt chest trauma incurred during rugby football that later required cardiac transplantation.
  1. A H Watt,
  2. M R Stephens

    Abstract

    A 28 year old man sustained an extensive anterolateral myocardial infarction five minutes after a blow on the chest while playing rugby football. The resulting persistent cardiac failure necessitated orthotopic cardiac transplantation.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.55.4.408

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

      Request Permissions

      If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.