Blunt Chest Wall Trauma and Troponin Elevation: Is it a Cardiac Contusion or a Myocardial Infarction?

Blunt chest wall trauma can cause a wide variety of cardiac injuries,1 but myocardial infarction secondary to atherosclerotic plaque rupture is a rare occurrence. We present a rare case of myocardial infarction as a result of atherosclerotic plaque rupture of the right coronary artery (RCA) following blunt chest wall trauma.

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