@article{ref1,
title="Low-velocity nail-gun injuries to the interventricular septum: report of two cases, one in a child",
journal="Texas heart institute journal",
year="2015",
author="Michalsen, Kara L. and Iguidbashian, John P. and Kyser, James P. and Long, William B.",
volume="42",
number="4",
pages="393-396",
abstract="Nail-gun injury to the heart is rare. Nail-gun injury to the interventricular septum is rarer: we could find only 5 reported cases, and none involving a child. We report 2 additional cases, in which nails penetrated the interventricular septum without causing acute pericardial tamponade, heart block, or shunt across the septum. Transesophageal echocardiography provides a dynamic way to evaluate the patient preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. In the cases reported here, both the adult with multiple interventricular nails and the child with a single nail underwent foreign-object removal via median sternotomy. The child needed cardiopulmonary bypass for removal of the nail. There were no short-term or long-term sequelae from these interventricular septal injuries.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0730-2347",
doi="10.14503/THIJ-13-4023",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.14503/THIJ-13-4023"
}