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Chronic constrictive pericarditis caused by self-mutilation with sewing needles. A case report and review of published reports.

B E Keogh1, C M Oakley, K M Taylor.   

Abstract

A 34 year old woman with a history of self-mutilation developed severe constrictive pericarditis with sterile, calcified intrapericardial abscess cavities as a result of inserting sewing needles into her chest seven years previously. After pericardiectomy she made a good recovery.

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Year:  1988        PMID: 3277655      PMCID: PMC1277078          DOI: 10.1136/hrt.59.1.77

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Br Heart J        ISSN: 0007-0769


  19 in total

1.  CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS AFTER BLUNT CHEST TRAUMA.

Authors:  S GOLDSTEIN; P N YU
Journal:  Am Heart J       Date:  1965-04       Impact factor: 4.749

2.  Constrictive pericarditis following traumatic hemopericardium.

Authors:  V A McKUSICK; J H KAY; J P ISAACS
Journal:  Ann Surg       Date:  1955-07       Impact factor: 12.969

3.  Traumatic pericarditis.

Authors:  R W KISSANE; S M ROSE
Journal:  Am J Cardiol       Date:  1961-01       Impact factor: 2.778

4.  Factors in the etiology of constrictive pericarditis.

Authors:  R A DETERLING; G H HUMPHREYS
Journal:  Circulation       Date:  1955-07       Impact factor: 29.690

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Authors:  J L EHRENHAFT; R E TABER
Journal:  J Thorac Surg       Date:  1952-10

6.  Cardiac tamponade: treatment by aspiration.

Authors:  D C ELKIN; R E CAMPBELL
Journal:  Ann Surg       Date:  1951-05       Impact factor: 12.969

7.  Foreign bodies in the cardiovascular system.

Authors:  N R BARRETT
Journal:  Br J Surg       Date:  1950-04       Impact factor: 6.939

8.  Constrictive pericarditis resulting from the transpulmonary migration of an inhaled nail.

Authors:  R Haas; R Lea; C Sbokos; N Conway
Journal:  Thorax       Date:  1979-08       Impact factor: 9.139

9.  Postoperative pericardial adhesions. The role of mild serosal injury and spilled blood.

Authors:  W J Cliff; J Grobéty; G B Ryan
Journal:  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg       Date:  1973-05       Impact factor: 5.209

10.  Injuries of the heart and great vessels due to pins and needles.

Authors:  D C Schechter; L Gilbert
Journal:  Thorax       Date:  1969-03       Impact factor: 9.139

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  2 in total

1.  Intramyocardial foreign body: sewing needle with the uncommon clinical feature of constrictive pericarditis.

Authors:  Satoru Nishida; Shigeyuki Tomita; Go Watanabe; Tamotsu Yasuda; Kenji Iino; Sadahiko Arai
Journal:  Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg       Date:  2005-11

2.  Multiple self-inserted pins and nails in pericardium in a patient of schizophrenia: Case report and review.

Authors:  S Soren; S Chaudhury; A K Bakhla
Journal:  Ind Psychiatry J       Date:  2015 Jan-Jun
  2 in total

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