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Young male suffering from schizophrenia with self-inserted pins and nails in chest and pericardial cavity…
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May support surgical referral for rare self-inflicted cardiac needle injuries; leaves open need for larger prospective series.
Self-inflicted intra-cardiac needle injuries are rare, typically occur in psychiatric patients, and have a high recovery rate (85%) with surgical management and low mortality (5%).
Chaudhury et al. (2015) studied this question.
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