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Case Reports
. 2006 Mar;7(3):219-21.
doi: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000215277.62767.8f.

An unusual case of cardiac tamponade

Lucio Braconi  1 , Paola Pretelli, Giancarlo Calamai, Gianfranco Montesi, Stefano Romagnoli, Sandro Gelsomino, Sergio Bevilacqua, Pierluigi Stefàno, Gian Franco Gensini
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Case Reports

An unusual case of cardiac tamponade

Lucio Braconi et al. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown). 2006 Mar.

Abstract

A case of a 67-year-old woman with cardiac tamponade caused by toothpick ingestion is presented. At clinical presentation, it mimicked postinfarction ventricular free wall rupture and the diagnosis was not made until the operation. Ingested toothpicks have often been reported as a cause of intestinal injuries, but in this rare case the toothpick migrated into the pericardium and caused laceration of the right coronary artery.

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