Cardiac Gunshot Injury: A Serendipitous Miss!

CECT, contrast-enhanced computed tomography cardiac trauma echocardiography gunshot injuries penetrating cardiac injury pericarditis sternotomy thoracic injuries

Journal

JACC. Case reports
ISSN: 2666-0849
Titre abrégé: JACC Case Rep
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101757292

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jan 2021
Historique:
received: 20 03 2020
revised: 01 06 2020
accepted: 10 06 2020
entrez: 28 7 2021
pubmed: 29 7 2021
medline: 29 7 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Penetrating cardiac injuries carry a grave prognosis. We present a rare case of thoracic gunshot injury where the bullet ricocheted and lodged in the pericardium without causing damage to the adjacent cardiac structures. Multimodality imaging helped in localizing the bullet, assessing damage, and planning safe surgical removal without cardiopulmonary bypass. (

Identifiants

pubmed: 34317461
doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.06.049
pii: S2666-0849(20)31321-8
pmc: PMC8305087
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

16-19

Informations de copyright

© 2021 The Authors.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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Auteurs

Jeetesh Jain (J)

Department of Cardiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Dinkar Bhasin (D)

Department of Cardiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Anunay Gupta (A)

Department of Cardiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.

H S Isser (HS)

Department of Cardiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Sandeep Bansal (S)

Department of Cardiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.

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