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A Retained Bullet in Pericardial Sac: Penetrating Gunshot Injury of the Heart

Penetrating cardiac trauma is rarely seen but when present there is a short time lag to keep the patients alive. Cardiac gunshot injuries are exceptional and it occurs mostly during interpersonal disagreements casualties or a mistakenly fired gun nowadays. Here we present a case of cardiac gunshot i...

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Autores principales: Kaya, Adnan, Caliskan, Emine, Tatlisu, Mustafa Adem, Hayiroglu, Mert Ilker, Tekessin, Ahmet Ilker, Cakilli, Yasin, Avsar, Sahin, Oz, Ahmet, Uzman, Osman
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4764739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26977324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2427681
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author Kaya, Adnan
Caliskan, Emine
Tatlisu, Mustafa Adem
Hayiroglu, Mert Ilker
Tekessin, Ahmet Ilker
Cakilli, Yasin
Avsar, Sahin
Oz, Ahmet
Uzman, Osman
author_facet Kaya, Adnan
Caliskan, Emine
Tatlisu, Mustafa Adem
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description Penetrating cardiac trauma is rarely seen but when present there is a short time lag to keep the patients alive. Cardiac gunshot injuries are exceptional and it occurs mostly during interpersonal disagreements casualties or a mistakenly fired gun nowadays. Here we present a case of cardiac gunshot injury from the war of Kobani, Syria. The patient was mistakenly diagnosed to have a sole bullet in the left shoulder while he had a penetrating cardiac trauma with a bullet in the heart and pericardial effusion possibly giving rise to pericardial tamponade. Luckily the cardiac gunshot injury was noticed one day later and the patient was referred to a tertiary hospital. Intrapericardial bullet was conservatively followed up. The patient was discharged one week later after resection of the bullet in the shoulder.
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spelling pubmed-47647392016-03-14 A Retained Bullet in Pericardial Sac: Penetrating Gunshot Injury of the Heart Kaya, Adnan Caliskan, Emine Tatlisu, Mustafa Adem Hayiroglu, Mert Ilker Tekessin, Ahmet Ilker Cakilli, Yasin Avsar, Sahin Oz, Ahmet Uzman, Osman Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Penetrating cardiac trauma is rarely seen but when present there is a short time lag to keep the patients alive. Cardiac gunshot injuries are exceptional and it occurs mostly during interpersonal disagreements casualties or a mistakenly fired gun nowadays. Here we present a case of cardiac gunshot injury from the war of Kobani, Syria. The patient was mistakenly diagnosed to have a sole bullet in the left shoulder while he had a penetrating cardiac trauma with a bullet in the heart and pericardial effusion possibly giving rise to pericardial tamponade. Luckily the cardiac gunshot injury was noticed one day later and the patient was referred to a tertiary hospital. Intrapericardial bullet was conservatively followed up. The patient was discharged one week later after resection of the bullet in the shoulder. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4764739/ /pubmed/26977324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2427681 Text en Copyright © 2016 Adnan Kaya et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Caliskan, Emine
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Cakilli, Yasin
Avsar, Sahin
Oz, Ahmet
Uzman, Osman
A Retained Bullet in Pericardial Sac: Penetrating Gunshot Injury of the Heart
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title_fullStr A Retained Bullet in Pericardial Sac: Penetrating Gunshot Injury of the Heart
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title_short A Retained Bullet in Pericardial Sac: Penetrating Gunshot Injury of the Heart
title_sort retained bullet in pericardial sac: penetrating gunshot injury of the heart
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4764739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26977324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2427681
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