“Shot to the Heart”: Case Report and Concise Review of Cardiac Gunshot Injury

Penetrative cardiac injury can often result in life-threatening sequelae such as myocardial contusion or rupture, coronary vessel and valvular damage, pericardial effusion with tamponade, and arrhythmias of which gunshot injury is a chief culprit. We report a case of a suspected acute coronary syndr...

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Autores principales: Kawall, Tiffany, Seecheran, Rajeev Virender, Seecheran, Valmiki Krishna, Persad, Sangeeta Anjali, Jagdeo, Cathy-Lee, Seecheran, Naveen Anand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32815420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620951652
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author Kawall, Tiffany
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Persad, Sangeeta Anjali
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description Penetrative cardiac injury can often result in life-threatening sequelae such as myocardial contusion or rupture, coronary vessel and valvular damage, pericardial effusion with tamponade, and arrhythmias of which gunshot injury is a chief culprit. We report a case of a suspected acute coronary syndrome after a cardiac gunshot injury that was conservatively managed.
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spelling pubmed-74441022020-09-09 “Shot to the Heart”: Case Report and Concise Review of Cardiac Gunshot Injury Kawall, Tiffany Seecheran, Rajeev Virender Seecheran, Valmiki Krishna Persad, Sangeeta Anjali Jagdeo, Cathy-Lee Seecheran, Naveen Anand J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Penetrative cardiac injury can often result in life-threatening sequelae such as myocardial contusion or rupture, coronary vessel and valvular damage, pericardial effusion with tamponade, and arrhythmias of which gunshot injury is a chief culprit. We report a case of a suspected acute coronary syndrome after a cardiac gunshot injury that was conservatively managed. SAGE Publications 2020-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7444102/ /pubmed/32815420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620951652 Text en © 2020 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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