Tiener slikt naald in – Naald reist in drie dagen naar zijn hart, nestelt zich in rechter hartkamer
2 September 2020
10:55
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According to the case report, doctors in the Emergency Department initially suspected a possible inflammation on the outer membrane of the heart. The teenager reportedly had sharp chest pain for three days, when he finally decided to pay a visit to the hospital.
It was definitely an unexpected result when a lung radiograph detected an unexpected mass at the front side of the chest. That was when doctors thought of a foreign body. To confirm it, the 17-year-old went through a computerized chest tomography, and there it was: a 1.3 inch (3.5-cm) long sewing pin within the right ventricle of the heart.
