Self-inflicted Cardiac Injury with Nail Gun Without Hemodynamic Compromise: A Case Report

Pneumatically powered nail guns have been used in construction since 1959. Penetrating injuries to the heart with nail guns have a wide range of presentations from asymptomatic to cardiac tamponade and exsanguination. Mortality related to cardiac nail gun injuries is similar to knife injuries, estim...

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Autores principales: Ho, Simon, Liu, Bo, Feranec, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28191375
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.971
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description Pneumatically powered nail guns have been used in construction since 1959. Penetrating injuries to the heart with nail guns have a wide range of presentations from asymptomatic to cardiac tamponade and exsanguination. Mortality related to cardiac nail gun injuries is similar to knife injuries, estimated at 25%. Surgical exploration is the treatment of choice. We describe a case of self-inflicted nail gun injury to the chest without hemodynamic compromise in a 51-year-old man. Computed tomography (CT) imaging confirmed nail penetrating the right ventricle, with the tip adjacent to but not violating the abdominal aorta. The patient was successfully treated with thoracotomy and foreign body removal.
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spelling pubmed-52989342017-02-10 Self-inflicted Cardiac Injury with Nail Gun Without Hemodynamic Compromise: A Case Report Ho, Simon Liu, Bo Feranec, Nicholas Cureus Radiology Pneumatically powered nail guns have been used in construction since 1959. Penetrating injuries to the heart with nail guns have a wide range of presentations from asymptomatic to cardiac tamponade and exsanguination. Mortality related to cardiac nail gun injuries is similar to knife injuries, estimated at 25%. Surgical exploration is the treatment of choice. We describe a case of self-inflicted nail gun injury to the chest without hemodynamic compromise in a 51-year-old man. Computed tomography (CT) imaging confirmed nail penetrating the right ventricle, with the tip adjacent to but not violating the abdominal aorta. The patient was successfully treated with thoracotomy and foreign body removal. Cureus 2017-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5298934/ /pubmed/28191375 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.971 Text en Copyright © 2017, Ho et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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