Guidelines for the Discovery of an Intracardiac Foreign Body Through a Case of Metal Tip Migration to the Right Ventricle after Tibia Osteosynthesis

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Antoine LEGRAS Berhouet J Bisson A Le Nail LR Odri GA Rosset Ph Yoon DJY

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Antoine LEGRAS
Department of Thoracic and Cardio-vascular Surgery, Centre hospitalier régional universitaire de Tours, Tours, France

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Case: We report a case of a metallic foreign body migration from the lower limb to the right ventricle. A metal tip of 5x3mm was discovered during a cardiac investigation for a ventricular extrasystole. A few months earlier, the patient had a tibia osteosynthesis for fracture. Conclusion: We propose guidelines in case of a cardiac foreign body detection. A conservative treatment or surgical removal can be discussed depending on the clinical features, the anatomical situation and the shape of the foreign body.

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Case Report

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Received: Fri 17, Apr 2020
Accepted: Mon 04, May 2020
Published: Tue 12, May 2020

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© 2023 Antoine LEGRAS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.IJSCR.2020.02.02