Venous bullet embolus to the left pulmonary artery

Tiffany Wilkins; Eliot R Rosenkranz; Dao Nguyen

doi:10.1111/jocs.12786

Venous bullet embolus to the left pulmonary artery

J Card Surg. 2016 Aug;31(8):523-5. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12786. Epub 2016 Jun 22.

Authors

Tiffany Wilkins¹, Eliot R Rosenkranz¹, Dao Nguyen¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida.

PMID: 27334133
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12786

Abstract

We report a venous bullet embolus into the left pulmonary artery following a gunshot wound to the right chest. The diagnosis and surgical management of migrating venous bullet emboli are reviewed.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Foreign-Body Migration / complications*
Foreign-Body Migration / diagnosis
Foreign-Body Migration / surgery
Humans
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Male
Pulmonary Artery*
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism / etiology*
Pulmonary Embolism / surgery
Radiography, Thoracic
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Vascular Surgical Procedures / methods
Wounds, Gunshot / complications
Wounds, Gunshot / diagnosis*
Wounds, Gunshot / surgery