Totally intramyocardial bullet in a clinically stable patient: a successfully managed case from a low income country.

Autor: Fekadu D; Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Bezabih A; Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Tesfaye M; Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Hayato A; Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Muluneh N; Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Kejela S; Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of surgical case reports [J Surg Case Rep] 2023 Apr 13; Vol. 2023 (4), pp. rjad013. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 13 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjad013
Abstrakt: Intra-cardiac retained bullets rare entities in clinical practice owing to the high mortality associated with it. We present a case of a 26-year-old male patient presented 24 days after sustaining a bullet injury to the left side of the chest. Intra-operatively totally myocardial bullet was found within the right ventricle and extracted successfully.
Competing Interests: None declared.
(Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2023.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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