I Want My Bullet Back: Percutaneous Endovascular Removal of a Right Atrial Foreign Body

The incidence and prevalence of firearm-related homicide in the United States make headlines daily. As a result, an epidemic of penetrating injuries is on the rise. Specifically, foreign bodies such as bullets and shrapnel are usually left inside the human body due to penetrating injuries, unless th...

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Autores principales: Harmon, Taylor S, Loper, Todd, Matteo, Jerry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6257493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30510877
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3367
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description The incidence and prevalence of firearm-related homicide in the United States make headlines daily. As a result, an epidemic of penetrating injuries is on the rise. Specifically, foreign bodies such as bullets and shrapnel are usually left inside the human body due to penetrating injuries, unless they are in close proximity to vital structures. We present a case of a bullet within the right atrial chamber of the heart, which was successfully removed by a minimally invasive endovascular approach.
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spelling pubmed-62574932018-12-03 I Want My Bullet Back: Percutaneous Endovascular Removal of a Right Atrial Foreign Body Harmon, Taylor S Loper, Todd Matteo, Jerry Cureus Radiology The incidence and prevalence of firearm-related homicide in the United States make headlines daily. As a result, an epidemic of penetrating injuries is on the rise. Specifically, foreign bodies such as bullets and shrapnel are usually left inside the human body due to penetrating injuries, unless they are in close proximity to vital structures. We present a case of a bullet within the right atrial chamber of the heart, which was successfully removed by a minimally invasive endovascular approach. Cureus 2018-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6257493/ /pubmed/30510877 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3367 Text en Copyright © 2018, Harmon 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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title_full I Want My Bullet Back: Percutaneous Endovascular Removal of a Right Atrial Foreign Body
title_fullStr I Want My Bullet Back: Percutaneous Endovascular Removal of a Right Atrial Foreign Body
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title_short I Want My Bullet Back: Percutaneous Endovascular Removal of a Right Atrial Foreign Body
title_sort i want my bullet back: percutaneous endovascular removal of a right atrial foreign body
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6257493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30510877
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3367
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