Delayed complications after myocardial contusion
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Delayed complications after myocardial contusion.
A 45 year old farmer was kicked in the chest by a horse. In the days following the injury episodic breathlessness developed and he was admitted to hospital with right ventricular failure and pulmonary emboli. Echocardiography showed global right ventricular dysfunction but a right ventricular mural thrombus, the likely source of the pulmonary emboli, was not seen. He gradually recovered after t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.68.11.529