title: Intramyocardial foreign body: sewing needle with the uncommon clinical feature of constrictive pericarditis.
abstract: A rare case of intracardiac injury with a sewing needle causing constrictive pericarditis is reported. A 72-year-old woman was admitted with edema of the face and legs. A chest radiogram showed a needle-shaped metallic image overlying the cardiac silhouette. Computed tomography revealed the needle was located in the left ventricular myocardium, and also showed a thickened pericardium. Surgical removal of the needle and pericardectomy were performed simultaneously.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Tamotsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iino
authors.forename: Sadahiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arai
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed