Citation

Selinger L, Werner K, Silber R, Nellessen U, Inselmann G. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 1998; 65(4): 1137-1138.

Affiliation

Medizinische Poliklinik and Klinik für Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie, University of Würzburg, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9564945

Abstract

We describe an exceptional case of a patient who suffered a penetrating heart injury from a gunshot wound in 1945 leading to a left ventricular-right atrial fistula. Despite the resulting left-to-right shunt the patient remained relatively asymptomatic for 50 years before the onset of congestive heart failure necessitated an operation.

Language: en