Key result
Violent football body check linked to coronary dissection and extensive anterior MI in a young man.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the rare occurrence of coronary dissection and occlusion resulting from blunt chest trauma during sports activities.
Clinicians should consider coronary dissection after blunt chest trauma in athletes; this case leaves open incidence and prevention data.
A 29-year-old man presented with heavy chest pain of 1 hour duration.Two months earlier, after a violent body check while playing American football, he had the same discomfort, albeit to a lesser degree, on slight exertion.Previously, he had been healthy, with no risk factors for coronary artery disease.Physical examination was unremarkable.The ECG showed an extensive acute anterior infarction.Nitroglycerin, tirofiban, and aspirin were administered intravenously, and an emergency coronary angiography was performed from the right radial artery (Figure 1).The left anterior descending artery was occluded proximally, and a large obtuse marginal From
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Hazeleger et al. (2001) conducted a case report in Coronary dissection and occlusion / acute anterior infarction (n=1). Sports injury (violent body check) was evaluated on Coronary dissection and occlusion. A violent body check during American football resulted in coronary dissection and occlusion, leading to an extensive acute anterior infarction in a previously healthy 29-year-old man.
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