Late intracardiac orthopedic wire migration presenting as tamponade and stroke

Eur Heart J. 2015 Jun 21;36(24):1546. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu416. Epub 2014 Nov 2.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Bone Wires*
  • Cardiac Tamponade / etiology*
  • Confusion / etiology
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Foreign-Body Migration / complications*
  • Heart Atria
  • Humans
  • Hypotension / etiology
  • Multimodal Imaging
  • Stroke / etiology*
  • Thrombosis / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed