Chronic Ventricular Septal Defect and Retained Bullet After Gunshot: Best Not to Reopen Old Wounds

Penetrating cardiac trauma from gunshots is usually fatal. We describe the case of a 62-year-old male presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. A retained bullet embedded into the left ventricle was identified incidentally along with a ventricular septal defect from a gunshot wound...

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Autores principales: Florica, Ioana Tereza, Santi, Nicolas D., Nguyen, Elsie T., Luk, Adriana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10401112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37545675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.101924
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Santi, Nicolas D.
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description Penetrating cardiac trauma from gunshots is usually fatal. We describe the case of a 62-year-old male presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. A retained bullet embedded into the left ventricle was identified incidentally along with a ventricular septal defect from a gunshot wound decades prior. The ventricular septal defect and retained bullet were managed conservatively. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-104011122023-08-05 Chronic Ventricular Septal Defect and Retained Bullet After Gunshot: Best Not to Reopen Old Wounds Florica, Ioana Tereza Santi, Nicolas D. Nguyen, Elsie T. Luk, Adriana JACC Case Rep Case Report Penetrating cardiac trauma from gunshots is usually fatal. We describe the case of a 62-year-old male presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. A retained bullet embedded into the left ventricle was identified incidentally along with a ventricular septal defect from a gunshot wound decades prior. The ventricular septal defect and retained bullet were managed conservatively. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2023-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10401112/ /pubmed/37545675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.101924 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Chronic Ventricular Septal Defect and Retained Bullet After Gunshot: Best Not to Reopen Old Wounds
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title_fullStr Chronic Ventricular Septal Defect and Retained Bullet After Gunshot: Best Not to Reopen Old Wounds
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title_short Chronic Ventricular Septal Defect and Retained Bullet After Gunshot: Best Not to Reopen Old Wounds
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