A case of a 67-year-old woman with cardiac tamponade caused by toothpick ingestion is presented. At clinical presentation, it mimicked postinfarction ventricular free wall rupture and the diagnosis was not made until the operation. Ingested toothpicks have often been reported as a cause of intestinal injuries, but in this rare case the toothpick migrated into the pericardium and caused laceration of the right coronary artery. © 2006 Italian Federation of Cardiology.
An unusual case of cardiac tamponade / Braconi L.; Pretelli P.; Calamai G.; Montesi G.; Romagnoli S.; Gelsomino S.; Bevilacqua S.; Stefano P.; Gensini G.F.. - In: JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE. - ISSN 1558-2027. - ELETTRONICO. - 7:(2006), pp. 219-221. [10.2459/01.JCM.0000215277.62767.8f]
An unusual case of cardiac tamponade
Romagnoli S.;Gelsomino S.;Bevilacqua S.;Stefano P.;Gensini G. F.
2006
Abstract
A case of a 67-year-old woman with cardiac tamponade caused by toothpick ingestion is presented. At clinical presentation, it mimicked postinfarction ventricular free wall rupture and the diagnosis was not made until the operation. Ingested toothpicks have often been reported as a cause of intestinal injuries, but in this rare case the toothpick migrated into the pericardium and caused laceration of the right coronary artery. © 2006 Italian Federation of Cardiology.
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