The echocardiographic diagnosis, characterization, and extraction guidance of cardiac foreign bodies.
Echocardiography is ideal for localizing cardiac foreign bodies and for characterizing associated cardiac and vascular injury before and during extraction. We report 5 cases of traumatic and iatrogenic cardiac foreign bodies that illustrate the central role of transthoracic and transesophageal ultrasonography in the management of these patients.
Fry
S J
SJ
Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA.
Picard
M H
MH
Tseng
J F
JF
Briggs
S M
SM
Isselbacher
E M
EM
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D011859:Radiography