The presence of a foreign body within the heart resulted from the migration of a needle fragment from a peripheral vessel. It caused fever and recurrent pericarditis. In similar cases, surgical extraction is the therapy of choice.
A case of needle embolism in a drug abuser, a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge / Scheggi, Valentina; Mariani, Tiziano; Mazzoni, Carlotta; Stefàno, Pier Luigi. - In: THE CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON. - ISSN 2662-2203. - ELETTRONICO. - 28:(2020), pp. 0-0. [10.1186/s43057-020-00036-x]
A case of needle embolism in a drug abuser, a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
Scheggi, Valentina;Mariani, Tiziano;Mazzoni, Carlotta;Stefàno, Pier Luigi
2020
Abstract
The presence of a foreign body within the heart resulted from the migration of a needle fragment from a peripheral vessel. It caused fever and recurrent pericarditis. In similar cases, surgical extraction is the therapy of choice.
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