Heart Injury with Projectile Lodged Inside the Heart

Penetrating heart injuries present high mortality rates. Increasing rates of urban violence have contributed to a significant rise in the number of heart injuries by firearm projectiles. Such injuries are associated with the highest mortality rates among penetrating cardiac injuries and may involve...

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Autores principales: Volpe, Marco Antônio, Paredes, Jorge Edwin Morocho, Redigolo, Luciana Costacurta, Sanchez, Isaac Samuel Moscoso, Lanichek, Fernando, Silveira, Luiza Zita D'Albuquerque
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30043924
http://dx.doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2018-0012
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author Volpe, Marco Antônio
Paredes, Jorge Edwin Morocho
Redigolo, Luciana Costacurta
Sanchez, Isaac Samuel Moscoso
Lanichek, Fernando
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author_facet Volpe, Marco Antônio
Paredes, Jorge Edwin Morocho
Redigolo, Luciana Costacurta
Sanchez, Isaac Samuel Moscoso
Lanichek, Fernando
Silveira, Luiza Zita D'Albuquerque
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description Penetrating heart injuries present high mortality rates. Increasing rates of urban violence have contributed to a significant rise in the number of heart injuries by firearm projectiles. Such injuries are associated with the highest mortality rates among penetrating cardiac injuries and may involve one or more cardiac chambers. We present the case of a police officer who, in an approach to five robbers, suffered a transfixed cardiac injury by firearm with the projectile having been lodged inside the right ventricle. This patient was successfully operated, 65 days after the injury, at our institution.
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spelling pubmed-60891332018-08-16 Heart Injury with Projectile Lodged Inside the Heart Volpe, Marco Antônio Paredes, Jorge Edwin Morocho Redigolo, Luciana Costacurta Sanchez, Isaac Samuel Moscoso Lanichek, Fernando Silveira, Luiza Zita D'Albuquerque Braz J Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Penetrating heart injuries present high mortality rates. Increasing rates of urban violence have contributed to a significant rise in the number of heart injuries by firearm projectiles. Such injuries are associated with the highest mortality rates among penetrating cardiac injuries and may involve one or more cardiac chambers. We present the case of a police officer who, in an approach to five robbers, suffered a transfixed cardiac injury by firearm with the projectile having been lodged inside the right ventricle. This patient was successfully operated, 65 days after the injury, at our institution. Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6089133/ /pubmed/30043924 http://dx.doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2018-0012 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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