Percutaneous Transjugular Extraction of Venous Bullet Embolism to the Right Ventricle.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.05.014.
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Abstract
Migration of a bullet to a distant part of the body after a gunshot is rarely observed in the clinical setting; migration to the heart is even rarer. There are usually no clear symptoms or signs from migration of a bullet. The case of a 28-year-old man with an intracardiac bullet migration 2 months after a gunshot wound to the right abdomen is presented. We propose that the bullet migrated along the vena cava to the right ventricle. Interventional radiology with a percutaneous transjugular extraction was used to recover this intracardiac projectile.
Medical subject headings
- Abdominal Injuries
- Embolism
- Foreign-Body Migration
- Heart Diseases
- Heart Ventricles
- Wounds, Gunshot