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Love of Children Touched Mother’s Heart
- Source :
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. 5
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012.
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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 …
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19417632 and 19417640
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e619f14ede0fd0b16dbe9c61ab534c6b