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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

A Soccer Shot with Lengthy Consequences-Case Report & Current Literature Review of Commotio Cordis.

Philipp Spitaler, Markus Stühlinger, Agne Adukauskaite, Axel Bauer, Wolfgang Dichtl

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. RevisitingJournal of the American Heart Association · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Philipp SpitalerDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5908-2923
Markus StühlingerDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-1324-0815
Agne AdukauskaiteDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Axel BauerDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Wolfgang DichtlDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0421-2110
Innsbruck Medical University · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Commotio cordis, caused by objects being directly delivered to the chest, may cause cardiac arrest in young athletes, even without identifiable structural damage to the sternum, ribs or heart itself. Its prevention and management often remain suboptimal, resulting in dismal outcomes. (2) Case summary: A 32-year semi-professional goalkeeper suffered from a non-penetrating blunt thoracic trauma after being struck by a high-velocity shot during a regional league soccer game. He immediately lost consciousness, collapsed, and was successfully resuscitated through early defibrillation of ventricular fibrillation. After an uneventful follow-up for approximately 6 years, recurrent episodes of ventricular tachycardia occurred, which could ultimately only be prevented by epicardial ablation. (3) Conclusion: Very late recurrences of ventricular tachyarrhythmias may occur after ventricular fibrillation due to blunt chest trauma, even in the primary absence of evident structural myocardial damage.

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commotio cordisepicardial ablationimplantable cardioverter-defibrillatorventricular tachycardia

Identifiers

PMID36983322
PMCPMC10054287
OpenAlexW4327730822

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