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Cureus
November 2024
Anesthesia and Critical Care, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Tangier, MAR.
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC), also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a rare condition in children that causes acute, severe, but often reversible systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle. Physical trauma is a recognized trigger, although distinguishing TTC from myocardial contusion in pediatric trauma cases can be challenging due to overlapping clinical features. We present the case of a six-year-old boy involved in a high-impact motor vehicle collision.
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July 2024
Department of Emergency Medicine, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
BACKGROUND A traumatic coronary artery dissection is a rare but severe complication of chest trauma that can result in blockage of the coronary artery. The clinical symptoms can vary considerably, from asymptomatic arrhythmia to acute myocardial infarction and sudden death. This report describes a young man with coronary artery dissection following blunt chest trauma from a motorcycle accident presenting with ventricular fibrillation due to acute myocardial infarction, which was treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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July 2024
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, JÓZEF STRUŚ HOSPITAL, POZNAŃ, POLAND.
Blunt chest trauma (BCT) may rarely trigger stress-induced takotsubo syndrome (TTS) which requires dif f erential diagnosis with myocardial contusion and BCT-induced myocardial infarction. So far reported cases have been presented as apical ballooning or inverted (reverse) TTS forms but not as a midventricular variant. The authors described a case of a 53-year-old female admitted to Intensive Care Unit after motor vehicle accident with BCT and airbag deployment during car roll over.
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April 2024
Department of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bandar Tun Razak, Malaysia.
A man in his 20s with no medical illness sustained a blunt chest injury with pneumothorax and lung contusion after involving in a motorbike accident. Five days postadmission, he subsequently had myocardial infarction with cardiac arrest, in which coronary angiogram and intravascular ultrasound showed diffused multivessel coronary artery dissection.
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