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Needle injury to the heart.
Over 160 cases of injury to the heart by pins and needles have been reported (Hermoni et al., 1986). These objects reached the heart by a number of routes including embolization and penetration from adjacent organs after ingestion. However the most common mode of injury was by direct transthoracic penetration and the majority of these were accidental in nature. We present the history of a 22-ye...
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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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Cardiac impalement injury is rare and one of the most severe penetrating chest injuries, often fatal. The management of penetrating cardiac injuries is a challenging one. The success in management of impaling cardiac trauma requires stabilization of the impaling object, expeditious transfer to a facility for open heart surgery, rapid imaging, access to blood and blood products and a ready surgi...
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Penetrating head injury is uncommon and is always a curiosity in terms of the mechanism involved. The complete extent of the damage can only be known with CT scan of the brain, which at times may be difficult to get, due to the large size of the foreign body. The management of such patients is always a challenge and requires innovative planning. A case of crochet needle injury is described in w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.9.1.54