A case report of a retained interventricular septal bullet after gunshot wound

Change in blood lead concentration up to 1 year after a gunshot wound with a retained bullet.

The authors studied the time course and prevalence of elevated blood lead concentrations and associated injury- and patient-specific factors during the first year following gunshot injury. They determined blood lead levels at mean time points of 0.3, 3.1, 18.7, 94.5, 188.3, and 349.4 days after injury in a volunteer sample of 451 subjects from a Los Angeles, California, trauma center who sustai...

Femoral artery embolism of bullet after thoracic gunshot wound

A 19-year-old man sustained a gunshot to the suprasternal notch with no exit wound. The precise make and model of the weapon were unknown (A). He presented to the emergency department with severe thoracoabdominal pain that was relieved spontaneously. The patient was hemodynamically stable during admission, with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 15. Initial vital signs were as follows: mean blood pr...

Popliteal artery embolism of bullet after abdominal gunshot wound

Bullet embolism to the peripheral arterial system is a rare phenomenon which frequently results in misdiagnosis due to lack of early symptoms. Embolisms can go to either arterial or venous systems with common sites of injury including the left ventricle, pulmonary vein, thoracic and abdominal aorta and peripheral arteries. Herein we present a case of a 19 year old patient with multiple gunshot ...

A Case of Bullet Wound

Spontaneous Intracranial Bullet Migration: A Complication of Penetrating Cranial Gunshot Wound: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Spontaneous migration of retained bullets in the brain is a recognized rare complication of penetrating cranial gunshot wounds to the brain. The authors report one rare case in a 55-year old male patient who presented with a penetrating cranial gunshot wound and a retained bullet. He had a dense right hemiplegia and expressive aphasia on admission. Skull x-ray confirmed the retained intracrania...