1. Love of Children Touched Mother’s Heart
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Karim Maachi, Philippe Marion, Thierry Fourme, Ugo Balderacchi, N. Baron, Christophe Caussin, Samer Chayeb, Bernard Livarek, David Pesenti Rossi, and Celine Chhuon
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Adult ,Chest Pain ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Mothers ,Physical examination ,Ventricular tachycardia ,Syncope ,Foreign-Body Migration ,Internal medicine ,Palpitations ,Humans ,Medicine ,Cardiac catheterization ,ST depression ,Tattooing ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Echocardiography ,Needles ,Ventricle ,Parasternal line ,Tachycardia, Ventricular ,cardiovascular system ,Coronary care unit ,Cardiology ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
In the literature, the foreign bodies described in the cardiac cavities are medical devices such as embolization of a catheter or a fragment from the catheter.1,2 We report a case of an unusual finding in the heart. A 42-year-old woman was admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit because of syncope associated with atypical chest pain and palpitations. She had no significant medical history with no previous cardiac, venous, or artery catheterization. She described a lipothymia event a few weeks ago. Her physical examination was unremarkable except for a tattoo on the left parasternal skin done 3 years before. Her electrocardiogram revealed multiple ventricular premature beats. Treadmill stress test showed a sustained right ventricular tachycardia without ST depression. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a linear hyperechogenic image in the right ventricle …
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- 2012