"Shot to the Heart": Case Report and Concise Review of Cardiac Gunshot Injury

• Main Authors: Tiffany Kawall MBBS (Author), Rajeev Virender Seecheran MBBS (Author), Valmiki Krishna Seecheran MBBS (Author), Sangeeta Anjali Persad MBBS (Author), Cathy-Lee Jagdeo MBBS, DM (Author), Naveen Anand Seecheran MBBS, MSc, FACP, FRCP, FACC, FESC, FSCAI (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Penetrative cardiac injury can often result in life-threatening sequelae such as myocardial contusion or rupture, coronary vessel and valvular damage, pericardial effusion with tamponade, and arrhythmias of which gunshot injury is a chief culprit. We report a case of a suspected acute coronary syndr...