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Heart, lung & circulation · Jul 2011
Case ReportsPenetrating cardiac injury following sewing needle ingestion.
- Sanju Sobnach, Franco Castillo, René Blanco Vinent, Delawir Kahn, and Ahmed Bhyat.
- Department of General Surgery, Kimberley Hospital Complex, Du Toitspan Road, Kimberley 8300, South Africa. sanjusobnach@hotmail.com
- Heart Lung Circ. 2011 Jul 1;20(7):479-81.
AbstractPenetrating cardiac injuries are common in South Africa. Reports describing traumatic lesions to the heart caused by caudo-cranial migration of ingested foreign bodies are however extremely rare. Delayed presentation and intervention are associated with poor outcome in these patients; cardiac tamponade remains the most serious complication. We present the case of a 19 year-old man who sustained a left ventricular injury after intentionally swallowing eight sewing needles. The impacted needle was removed through a median sternotomy and the patient recovered uneventfully.Copyright © 2011 Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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