Abstract
A 33-year-old male soccer player started to experience chest discomfort briefly after taking a blow from an opponent’s knee into his chest during a dribbling maneuver on the pitch. He completed the game but then consulted a referring hospital because of waxing and waning chest complaints irradiating to his left arm. The ECG demonstrated ST-T–segment changes compatible with inferoposterior ischemia (Figure 1). Cardiac enzyme markers were elevated. Echocardiography confirmed inferior wall hypokinesis. The patient was loaded with aspirin and clopidogrel. He subsequently underwent transradial invasive coronary angiography, which demonstrated Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) 2 flow in the right coronary artery and a dissection-suspect lesion in its proximal segment (online-only Data Supplement Movie I and Figure 2). Invasive imaging of the right …
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