Citation

Saunders CR, Saro E, Patel P, Swidryk J, Bacani VO, Russo MJ, Stone JH. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2013; 96(5): 1875-1877.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Barnabas Heart Institute, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey. Electronic address: csaunder@barnabashealth.org.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.02.052

PMID

24182483

Abstract

Stingray injuries to the heart are rare, and survivors of this injury are even rarer. To date, there are only three reported survivors of this mode of penetrating cardiac injury, all inflicted by the living animal itself. The following is a report of a stingray injury, inflicted by a human, causing coronary complications 17 years after the injury was sustained.

Language: en