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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Massive Transfusion for Motorcycle Collision with Hemorrhage, Troponin Elevated. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. : A Child with Blunt Trauma -- See how the ECG can be definite for myocardial contusion, but subtle, and what happens if you miss it. 2015, March 1). Myocardial contusion in an 8-year-old boy. Cramer, M.

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A woman in her 20s with syncope

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Less common etiologies include uremia, bacterial or tubercular pericarditis, chronic idiopathic pericarditis, hemorrhage, and other causes such as autoimmune diseases, radiation, myxedema, etc. The second most common cause of medical cardiac tamponade is acute idiopathic pericarditis. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2013 Sep;26(9):965-1012.e15.