Myocardial infarction caused by coronary artery damage from blunt chest injury.

Trauma associated with acute myocardial infarction in a multi-state hospitalized population

“…Motor vehicle crashes have been shown to produce such significant and sudden deceleration [40]. In our study, transportationrelated trauma was the leading mechanism of injury among persons 45 years old or younger and this finding correlates well with the evidence from case studies that looked at AMI following motor vehicle crashes [41][42][43][44]. Although compression of the anterior chest wall during traumatic impact has been shown to cause damage to the intimae of the coronary arteries [45], we, however, found that thoracic trauma was related to only moderately increased risk for AMI after adjusting for other variables.…”

Prior blunt chest trauma may be a cause of single vessel coronary disease; hypothesis and review

“…Only a few reports stated whether or not the driver had used a safety belt. Nine cases of myocardial infarction were caused by motor cycle accidents [5,9,11,15,16,34,35,48], two by bicycle accidents [1,20], one following a plane crash [57], one patient was hit by a moped [36]; no details were given in two cases [23,26].…”

Ventricular Fibrillation Induced by Stretch Pulse: Implications for Sudden Death Due to Commotio Cordis

“…VF caused by a strike over the cardiac silhouette can be a primary electrical event or can be secondary to myocardial ischemia, hemorrhage, or heart block. [21][22][23] Human victims of commotio cordis collapse virtually instantaneously after impact. 1 In vivo models of commotio cordis demonstrated VF immediately after a chest impact.…”