Delayed shotgun pellet migration to the right ventricle.
Multiple case reports of bullet emboli to the heart have been documented. A unique clinical situation is presented of a patient who sustained a shotgun injury to the buttock, with retained pellets, who 7 to 10 years later demonstrated intravascular migration of one of the pellets to the intracardiac position.
D000328:Adult; D002081:Buttocks / Q000293:injuries*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004617:Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications*