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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2001;19:513
© 2001 Elsevier Science NL

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

Intracardiac foreign body: a sewing needle in right ventricle

Kyung-Hwan Kima,b, Hyuk Ahna,b

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, 28 Yongon-Dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, South Korea
b Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

Received 24 October 2000; received in revised form 16 February 2001; accepted 16 February 2001.

Corresponding author. Tel.: +82-2-760-3971; fax: +82-2-764-3664
e-mail: kkh726{at}snu.ac.kr

A 34-year-old woman was hospitalized with anterior chest pain. Plain radiography and computed tomography of the chest revealed a sewing needle in the right cardiac chamber (Fig. 1) . She had no history of surgery, drug abuse or acupuncture. The needle (Fig. 2) was removed by cardiopulmonary bypass.



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  		Fig. 1. Angiographic film. A needle is located below the tip of the pig-tail catheter around tricuspid valve.

 


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  		Fig. 2. Extracted sewing needle.

 




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