| Surgical Treatment for an Intracardiac Needle-Like Foreign Body |
(Department of Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Miyazaki Prefectural Nobeoka Hospital, Nobeoka, Japan and Kuwabara Clinic*, Miyazaki, Japan)
| Eisaku Nakamura |
Kunihide Nakamura |
Masachika Kuwabara* |
| Masakazu Matsuyama |
Katsuhiko Niina |
Hirohito Ishii |
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A 37-year-old man who had suffered right chest pain while mowing weeds was transferred to our hospital. A chest roentgenogram revealed a needle-like foreign body overlying the cardiac silhouette and chest CT confirmed an intracardiac foreign body. The patient underwent emergency operation, and a foreign body was removed under cardiopulmonary bypass and performed cardiac repair. A foreign body penetrated right lung and reached it in the left atrial cavity. The patient recovered uneventfully without any symptoms of infections.
Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 37: 306-309 (2008) |
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