Surgical treatment of posttraumatic foreign bodies in the heart or great vessels
Jiang, C.-l.; Gu, T.-x.; Wang, C.
Chinese Medical Journal 119(23): 2018-2020
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0366-6999 PMID: 17199948 Document Number: 596696
Posttraumatic foreign bodies in the heart or great vessels is rare, which may cause cardiac tamponade, bleeding, shock, infection, embolism, arrhythmia, valve dysfunction, etc. The foreign bodies can be removed by surgery or percutaneous intervention. In this report we reviewed our experience in managing posttraumatic foreign bodies in 13 patients at our institution from 1992 to 2002.