TY - JOUR
T1 - Intra-Aortic Missile After Gunshot Wound to Chest
T2 - An Interesting Case of Traumatic Cardiac Injury
AU - Fraser, Charles D.
AU - Goeddel, Lee
AU - Patel, Nishant D.
AU - Azoury, Said C.
AU - Grimm, Joshua C.
AU - Sheinberg, Rosanne B.
AU - Sciortino, Christopher M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/5
Y1 - 2017/5
N2 - Missile embolus to the heart, although uncommon, is one of the most challenging scenarios in trauma. We describe a 36-year-old man who presented with a gunshot wound to the left chest and a chest x-ray revealing a foreign body in the mediastinum. A median sternotomy was performed and an injury to the left ventricle was identified. After intraoperative echocardiography and fluoroscopy confirmed a foreign body in the aortic root, cardiopulmonary bypass was implemented. A bullet was retrieved from the noncoronary sinus of the aortic valve. Injuries to the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve and left ventricle were repaired.
AB - Missile embolus to the heart, although uncommon, is one of the most challenging scenarios in trauma. We describe a 36-year-old man who presented with a gunshot wound to the left chest and a chest x-ray revealing a foreign body in the mediastinum. A median sternotomy was performed and an injury to the left ventricle was identified. After intraoperative echocardiography and fluoroscopy confirmed a foreign body in the aortic root, cardiopulmonary bypass was implemented. A bullet was retrieved from the noncoronary sinus of the aortic valve. Injuries to the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve and left ventricle were repaired.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.10.012
DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.10.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 28431721
AN - SCOPUS:85017619114
VL - 103
SP - e441-e442
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
SN - 0003-4975
IS - 5
ER -