Literature DB >> 7470346

Needle in the heart.

I J Potek, J S Wright.   

Abstract

A patient accidentally drove a darning needle through her chest wall into her left ventricle. After referral five weeks later as possible case of infective endocarditis, the needle was detected and removed successfully by open heart surgery. It was localised precisely by echocardiography.

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Year:  1981        PMID： 7470346      PMCID： PMC482529          DOI： 10.1136/hrt.45.3.325

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


  3 in total

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Authors:  P M McCormack; W H Knapper
Journal:  JAMA       Date:  1977-11-07       Impact factor: 56.272

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Authors:  E Berg
Journal:  Munch Med Wochenschr       Date:  1971-02-05

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Authors:  S M Markowitz; S Szentpetery; R R Lower; R J Duma
Journal:  Am J Med       Date:  1976-04       Impact factor: 4.965
  3 in total
  3 in total

1.  Needle injury to the heart.

Authors:  W G Morrison; J R Heyworth
Journal:  Arch Emerg Med       Date:  1992-03

2.  [A case report of recurrent self inserted needle in heart].

Authors:  Y Mochizuki; Y Sugita; Y Okamura; H Iida; H Mori; K Shimada
Journal:  Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg       Date:  1998-05

3.  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
  3 in total

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