Assistant Professor of General Surgery, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Fatemeh Zahra Hospital, Bushehr, Iran
Abstract
Here is a 35 year old with no underlying disease, who referred to hospital within 8 days after blunt trauma in the chest, with a chief complaint about his shortness of breath and hemoptysis. After the paraclinical work up the diagnosis of pulmonary infarct, due to a pulmonary embolus, triggered by blunt trauma in the patient's chest was made. Since over 95 % of all pulmonary embolism originate from thrombi in the deep veins of the lower leg and 80-60 % of pulmonary emboli are asymptomatic pulmonary embolism in the majority of patients who don’t have history of heart disease, it can only lead to hemorrhage, without persistent pulmonary infarction. As the incidence of this presentation is low, it thus can be considered.
Hoseini,M , Alizadeh Otaghvar,H , Mirmalek,A and Tizmaghz,A . (2014). A Case report of Pulmonary Infarction due to Pulmonary Thromboembolism after Blunt Chest Trauma. Iranian Journal of Surgery, 22(Spring), 73-79.
MLA
Hoseini,M , , Alizadeh Otaghvar,H , , Mirmalek,A , and Tizmaghz,A . "A Case report of Pulmonary Infarction due to Pulmonary Thromboembolism after Blunt Chest Trauma", Iranian Journal of Surgery, 22, Spring, 2014, 73-79.
HARVARD
Hoseini M, Alizadeh Otaghvar H, Mirmalek A, Tizmaghz A. (2014). 'A Case report of Pulmonary Infarction due to Pulmonary Thromboembolism after Blunt Chest Trauma', Iranian Journal of Surgery, 22(Spring), pp. 73-79.
CHICAGO
M Hoseini, H Alizadeh Otaghvar, A Mirmalek and A Tizmaghz, "A Case report of Pulmonary Infarction due to Pulmonary Thromboembolism after Blunt Chest Trauma," Iranian Journal of Surgery, 22 Spring (2014): 73-79,
VANCOUVER
Hoseini M, Alizadeh Otaghvar H, Mirmalek A, Tizmaghz A. A Case report of Pulmonary Infarction due to Pulmonary Thromboembolism after Blunt Chest Trauma. Iranian Journal of Surgery. 2014;22(Spring):73-79.
