Coronary artery rupture due to blunt chest trauma

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Yes.  And it has been reported well in the literature in the pre medline era.  
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Stephen Richey" <stephen.richey at gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:17:39 
To:trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Coronary artery rupture due to blunt chest trauma


Has anyone here seen a rupture of a coronary artery due to blunt chest
trauma?  I've encountered two instances of this in the cases I am looking
into for my research project.  The only reference to this I could find in
the literature was a motorcycle accident where the patient had been on
anticoagulants.  I am curious as to how odd of an injury this actually is as
I had never heard of it occurring previously.


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Stephen L. Richey, CRT
Aviation Injury Research Project Leader
Saginaw Valley State University
Phone: 248-366-4452
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