Intramyocardial foreign body: sewing needle with the uncommon clinical feature of constrictive pericarditis.
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.
Nishida
Satoru
S
Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
Tomita
Shigeyuki
S
Watanabe
Go
G
Yasuda
Tamotsu
T
Iino
Kenji
K
Arai
Sadahiko
S
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