Affiliation:
1. Büklüm sokak 20/17 06660 Kavaklidere Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
A 12-year-old girl presented with recurrent pericardial effusion due to firearm pellet injury to the left ventricle. The pellet was localized by two-dimensional echocardiog raphy within the left ventricular apical wall. Since the patient was asymptomatic, left ventriculotomy was avoided to extract the pellet and only pericardial tube drainage was carried out. A slightly elevated blood lead level of the patient was alarming for potential subsequent lead poisoning due to retained pellets.
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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