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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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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