A remnant sewing needle in the right ventricle as a cause of chest pain.
Sewing needles, albeit a rare case of penetrating cardiac injury, are potentially life-threatening. We report a case of a self-inflicted remnant intracardiac sewing needle which is diagnosed with nonspecific chest pain and successfully extracted 23 months after its insertion.
Gungor
Hasan
H
Ege University Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology Izmir, Turkey.
Duygu
Hamza
H
Yildiz
Bekir Serhat
BS
Gul
Ilker
I
Zoghi
Mehdi
M
Ozerkan
Filiz
F
D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003863:Depression; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000150:complications*