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MRI demonstration of acute myocardial infarction due to posttraumatic coronary artery dissection.

Tepe SM, Glockner JF, Julsrud P

Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. tepe.savas@mayo.edu

A case of left ventricular lateral wall myocardial infarction in the distribution of circumflex coronary artery (LCX) was demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging in a 55-year-old woman. Dissection of the proximal LCX due to blunt chest trauma was followed by percutaneous coronary artery stenting. MR (magnetic resonance) imaging of myocardial infarction is reviewed.

Published 10 March 2006 in Int J Cardiovasc Imaging, 22(1): 97-100.
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