
@article{ref1,
title="[Foreign bodies in the heart]",
journal="Medicina (Lithuania)",
year="2002",
author="Samiatina, Diana and Pranevicius, Adolfas and Rubikas, Romaldas",
volume="38",
number="3",
pages="304-311",
abstract="During 1987-2000, in Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Kaunas Medical University Hospital 30 patients with cardiac injuries and foreign bodies in the heart were treated. Average age of patients--37 years. Eighteen patients were extra operated with symptoms of acute pericardial tamponade and shock. We found right ventricular involvement for 5 patients; 9 patients had left ventricular injury, 2 had right atrium injury and 1 patient had left atrium injury. Two patients had foreign bodies in the heart (one--needles, one--bullet). We present two rare cases of foreign bodies in the heart.<p /><p>Language: lt</p>",
language="lt",
issn="1010-660X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}