An Unusual Presentation of a Cardiac Foreign Body in a Pediatric Patient

Cardiac foreign bodies (FBs) are rare. Their etiology can be attributed to penetrating injuries although they are also often found incidentally. The approach for removal of these FBs is variable and patient dependent. Although there is debate regarding indications for removal, there is a general con...

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Autores principales: Al-Musawi, Mohammed, Rubay, David, Ohanisian, Levonti, Sidley, Angel, Abed, Ali N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404380
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4829
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author Al-Musawi, Mohammed
Rubay, David
Ohanisian, Levonti
Sidley, Angel
Abed, Ali N
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description Cardiac foreign bodies (FBs) are rare. Their etiology can be attributed to penetrating injuries although they are also often found incidentally. The approach for removal of these FBs is variable and patient dependent. Although there is debate regarding indications for removal, there is a general consensus that symptomatic FBs presenting acutely, as well as asymptomatic FBs posing a greater risk of complication to the patient, should be removed. We present the case of a 14-year-old patient with a cardiac FB and a step-wise approach for removal.
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spelling pubmed-66823422019-08-09 An Unusual Presentation of a Cardiac Foreign Body in a Pediatric Patient Al-Musawi, Mohammed Rubay, David Ohanisian, Levonti Sidley, Angel Abed, Ali N Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Cardiac foreign bodies (FBs) are rare. Their etiology can be attributed to penetrating injuries although they are also often found incidentally. The approach for removal of these FBs is variable and patient dependent. Although there is debate regarding indications for removal, there is a general consensus that symptomatic FBs presenting acutely, as well as asymptomatic FBs posing a greater risk of complication to the patient, should be removed. We present the case of a 14-year-old patient with a cardiac FB and a step-wise approach for removal. Cureus 2019-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6682342/ /pubmed/31404380 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4829 Text en Copyright © 2019, Al-Musawi 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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