Intracardiac Penetrating Injury with Right Femoral Artery Embolism Due to Blast Injury

Overview

Journal Heart Views

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2017 Apr 13

PMID 28400939

Authors

Ahmed Abdulaziz Abuzaid

Thamer Al-Abbasi

Zaid Arekat

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Abstract

Embolization due to blast injury with projectiles entering the bloodstream from the heart is a rare event that is unlikely to be suspected during the initial assessment of trauma patients. We report a case in which a missile penetrating the heart chambers managed to embolize and occlude the right common femoral artery. This was successfully managed by means of a multidisciplinary approach that included exploration, cardiorrhaphy, and embolectomy.

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