Traumatic coronary artery dissection: potential cause of sudden death in soccer.

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