Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report

BACKGROUND: Bullet embolus is a rare condition following gunshot injuries and represents a clinical challenge regarding both diagnosis and management. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 35-year-old Iranian (Middle-Eastern) male patient with a shotgun injury to both buttocks, which traveled t...

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Autores principales: Hosseinzadeh, Ahmad, Moeini Farsani, Mohammad, Mahmoudi, Mohamad Mahdi, Hekmatnia, Ahmadreza, Ghasemi Gorji, Meghdad, Asnaashari, Majid, Ghoddusi Johari, Hamed, Shahriarirad, Reza
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35598001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03414-7
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author Hosseinzadeh, Ahmad
Moeini Farsani, Mohammad
Mahmoudi, Mohamad Mahdi
Hekmatnia, Ahmadreza
Ghasemi Gorji, Meghdad
Asnaashari, Majid
Ghoddusi Johari, Hamed
Shahriarirad, Reza
author_facet Hosseinzadeh, Ahmad
Moeini Farsani, Mohammad
Mahmoudi, Mohamad Mahdi
Hekmatnia, Ahmadreza
Ghasemi Gorji, Meghdad
Asnaashari, Majid
Ghoddusi Johari, Hamed
Shahriarirad, Reza
author_sort Hosseinzadeh, Ahmad
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description BACKGROUND: Bullet embolus is a rare condition following gunshot injuries and represents a clinical challenge regarding both diagnosis and management. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 35-year-old Iranian (Middle-Eastern) male patient with a shotgun injury to both buttocks, which traveled to the heart and the popliteal area through the femoral vein and superficial femoral artery, respectively. Surgical intervention was applied for the popliteal pellet, and the patient was discharged without further complications. CONCLUSION: Although bullet emboli can be a clinical challenge, with the advent of modern procedures, removal has become safer. X-ray, computed tomography, and transthoracic and/or transesophageal echocardiography may be used as adjuncts to help establish the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-91243982022-05-23 Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report Hosseinzadeh, Ahmad Moeini Farsani, Mohammad Mahmoudi, Mohamad Mahdi Hekmatnia, Ahmadreza Ghasemi Gorji, Meghdad Asnaashari, Majid Ghoddusi Johari, Hamed Shahriarirad, Reza J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Bullet embolus is a rare condition following gunshot injuries and represents a clinical challenge regarding both diagnosis and management. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 35-year-old Iranian (Middle-Eastern) male patient with a shotgun injury to both buttocks, which traveled to the heart and the popliteal area through the femoral vein and superficial femoral artery, respectively. Surgical intervention was applied for the popliteal pellet, and the patient was discharged without further complications. CONCLUSION: Although bullet emboli can be a clinical challenge, with the advent of modern procedures, removal has become safer. X-ray, computed tomography, and transthoracic and/or transesophageal echocardiography may be used as adjuncts to help establish the diagnosis. BioMed Central 2022-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9124398/ /pubmed/35598001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03414-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Moeini Farsani, Mohammad
Mahmoudi, Mohamad Mahdi
Hekmatnia, Ahmadreza
Ghasemi Gorji, Meghdad
Asnaashari, Majid
Ghoddusi Johari, Hamed
Shahriarirad, Reza
Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report
title Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report
title_full Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report
title_fullStr Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report
title_short Simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report
title_sort simultaneous retrograde venous and anterograde arterial bullet embolism: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35598001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03414-7
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