A rare survival from a cardiac gunshot wound with a retained bullet in China

Key Points

Successful survival from a cardiac gunshot wound indicates the importance of timely surgery in critical injuries.
A gunshot wound traversed the heart and lodged in the pericardial cavity, posing significant risk to the patient.
Immediate surgical intervention was essential to manage the life-threatening cardiac trauma effectively.
This case underscores the challenges of penetrating injuries and the need for rapid emergency responses.

Abstract

Penetrating cardiac trauma is one of the most critical emergency injuries, characterized by rapid progression and extremely high mortality. This article reports a case of a patient who sustained a gunshot wound that traversed the heart and lodged in the pericardial cavity, and was successfully rescued due to timely surgery.

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Liu et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a75b49c6e9836116a225c6 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaf1100

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