Cardiac trauma

78-year-old female was shot in the chest with a pellet gun.

Acute total occlusion of the right coronary artery by a pellet.

Circulation.2001;104:E40

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A 29-year-old male experienced an acute anterior myocardial infarction one hour after playing football. How might this have happened.

Coronary dissection and occlusion due to sports injury.

Circulation.2001;103:1174

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Edited by Donald L Vine MD