Totally intramyocardial bullet in a clinically stable patient: a successfully managed case from a low income country

Intra-cardiac retained bullets rare entities in clinical practice owing to the high mortality associated with it. We present a case of a 26-year-old male patient presented 24 days after sustaining a bullet injury to the left side of the chest. Intra-operatively totally myocardial bullet was found wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Fekadu, Desalegn, Bezabih, Abebe, Tesfaye, Mahlet, Hayato, Abdella, Muluneh, Natnael, Kejela, Segni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37064066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad013
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Sumario:Intra-cardiac retained bullets rare entities in clinical practice owing to the high mortality associated with it. We present a case of a 26-year-old male patient presented 24 days after sustaining a bullet injury to the left side of the chest. Intra-operatively totally myocardial bullet was found within the right ventricle and extracted successfully.

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