Heart Injury with Projectile Lodged Inside the Heart

• Autor(a) principal: Volpe,Marco Antônio
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Paredes,Jorge Edwin Morocho, Redigolo,Luciana Costacurta, Sanchez,Isaac Samuel Moscoso, Lanichek,Fernando, Silveira,Luiza Zita D'Albuquerque
• Tipo de documento: Relatório
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382018000300303
• topic: Heart injuries; Wounds and Injuries; Wounds, Gunshot; Cardiac Surgical Procedures

Abstract Penetrating heart injuries present high mortality rates. Increasing rates of urban violence have contributed to a significant rise in the number of heart injuries by firearm projectiles. Such injuries are associated with the highest mortality rates among penetrating cardiac injuries and may involve one or more cardiac chambers. We present the case of a police officer who, in an approach to five robbers, suffered a transfixed cardiac injury by firearm with the projectile having been lodged inside the right ventricle. This patient was successfully operated, 65 days after the injury, at our institution.