Multivessel Traumatic Coronary Artery Dissection After a Motor Vehicle Accident With Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Yagya Pandey, MD; Brittany Owen, MD; Gilad Birnbaum, MD; Rashed Tabbaa, MD; Ihab Hamzeh, MD; Nasser Lakkis, MD; Waleed Kayani, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Multivessel Traumatic Coronary Artery Dissection After a Motor Vehicle Accident With Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Yagya Pandey, MD,
Brittany Owen, MD,
Gilad Birnbaum, MD,
Rashed Tabbaa, MD,
Ihab Hamzeh, MD,
Nasser Lakkis, MD,
Waleed Kayani, MD

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Yagya Pandey, MD: Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Brittany Owen, MD: Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Gilad Birnbaum, MD: Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Rashed Tabbaa, MD: Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Ihab Hamzeh, MD: Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Nasser Lakkis, MD: Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Waleed Kayani, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Waleed Kayani, Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, 1504 Taub Loop, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.; Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 15
pp. 2295 – 2298

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Coronary artery dissection is a rare complication of blunt chest wall trauma. We report a case of acute left anterior descending and right coronary artery dissections after a motor vehicle accident. The musculoskeletal injuries obscured the cardiac symptoms. Electrocardiogram and bedside echocardiogram revealed cardiac pathology, which prompted urgent coronary angiography and intervention. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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