title: Removal of Kirschner wire that migrated from the pelvic bone into the right ventricle of the heart.
abstract: A sixty-year-old man was admitted due to chest pain. He had a history of pelvic bone fracture fixation with Kirschner wire about 20 years earlier. On examination, we detected a Kirschner wire that had migrated into the right ventricle. Without cardiopulmonary bypass, we removed the migrating Kirschner wire via median sternotomy. The patient recovered without complications and was discharged on the 5th postoperative day.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Eon
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung-Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Won-Chul
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Joung-Hun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Byun