It is no wonder that heart diseases are getting severe day by day. Looking at the present scenario of the heart diseases and their connection with today’s fast lifestyle, a less discussed heart injury disease called Myocardial contusion needs attention from the clinical perspective. A bruise or contusion occurred in the heart as a result of injury is termed as Myocardial contusion. It is also called as Blunt myocardial injury alternatively in the field of medicine.
It results from blunt trauma of anterior wall chest. There is no specific diagnosis reported in case of myocardial contusion. It comes along with other injuries of chest such as valve injury, pneumothorax etc. Various causes have been reported behind occurrence of Myocardial contusion such as car accidents - crashes and direct attacks on the body, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and falling from high altitudes of more than 20…
