title: [Foreign bodies in the heart].
abstract: During 1987-2000, in Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Kaunas Medical University Hospital 30 patients with cardiac injuries and foreign bodies in the heart were treated. Average age of patients--37 years. Eighteen patients were extra operated with symptoms of acute pericardial tamponade and shock. We found right ventricular involvement for 5 patients; 9 patients had left ventricular injury, 2 had right atrium injury and 1 patient had left atrium injury. Two patients had foreign bodies in the heart (one--needles, one--bullet). We present two rare cases of foreign bodies in the heart.
authors.affiliation: Kauno medicinos universiteto kliniku Torakalines chirurgijos klinika, Eiveniu 2, 3007 Kaunas.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Samiatina
authors.forename: Adolfas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pranevicius
authors.forename: Romaldas
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rubikas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006321:Heart; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery