A needle infixed in the heart.
A 34-year-old man self-fixed a needle into his heart, in the interventricular septum. The foreign body was localized by X-ray, echocardiography, and computed tomography. At surgical opening of the pericardial lamina, the needle was extracted with no need of cutting open the cardiac muscle.
Gallerani
M
M
Emergency Department, St Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy.
Ferrari
F
F
Magenta
G
G
Barboso
G
G
Antonelli
A M
AM
Manfredini
R
R
D000328:Adult; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009339:Needles; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders