Totally intramyocardial bullet in a clinically stable patient: a successfully managed case from a low income country

Author:

Fekadu Desalegn1,Bezabih Abebe1,Tesfaye Mahlet1,Hayato Abdella1,Muluneh Natnael1,Kejela Segni1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University , Addis Ababa , Ethiopia

Abstract

AbstractIntra-cardiac retained bullets rare entities in clinical practice owing to the high mortality associated with it. We present a case of a 26-year-old male patient presented 24 days after sustaining a bullet injury to the left side of the chest. Intra-operatively totally myocardial bullet was found within the right ventricle and extracted successfully.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Surgery

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