Heart Injury with Projectile Lodged Inside the Heart

AUTOR(ES)

Volpe, Marco Antônio, Paredes, Jorge Edwin Morocho, Redigolo, Luciana Costacurta, Sanchez, Isaac Samuel Moscoso, Lanichek, Fernando, Silveira, Luiza Zita D'Albuquerque

FONTE

Braz. J. Cardiovasc. Surg.

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2018-06

RESUMO

Abstract Penetrating heart injuries present high mortality rates. Increasing rates of urban violence have contributed to a significant rise in the number of heart injuries by firearm projectiles. Such injuries are associated with the highest mortality rates among penetrating cardiac injuries and may involve one or more cardiac chambers. We present the case of a police officer who, in an approach to five robbers, suffered a transfixed cardiac injury by firearm with the projectile having been lodged inside the right ventricle. This patient was successfully operated, 65 days after the injury, at our institution.

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