Open AccessA Remnant Sewing Needle in the Right Ventricle as a Cause of Chest Pain
Author(s) -
Gungor Hasan,
Duygu Hamza,
Yildiz Bekir Serhat,
Gul Ilker,
Zoghi Mehdi,
Ozerkan Filiz
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20530
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricle , chest pain , cardiology
Sewing needles, albeit a rare case of penetrating cardiac injury, are potentially life‐threatening. We report a case of a self‐inflicted remnant intracardiac sewing needle which is diagnosed with nonspecific chest pain and successfully extracted 23 months after its insertion. Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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