Cardiac Gunshot Injury

Penetrating gunshot injury

Penetrating gunshot injury is a rarely seen but a life threatening condition. Priorly stabilization of the patient’s vital signs with saline infusion, and compression of bleeding sites should be provided. Then transfer into an advanced life support facilities must be the second step. Here we present a 17-year-old female patient who had a penetrating gunshot injury during the ongoing war in Koba...

Craniocerebral gunshot injury in newborn

Head wounds caused by firearms in newborns are an under-studied phenomenon in Latin America due to either the low frequency of such events or inadequate documentation. Nonetheless, a progressive increase is noted, with different frequencies reported for different geographic areas. We present the case of a 28-day-old newborn who suffered traumatic brain injury from a gunshot wound stemming from ...

Traumatic urinary diversion caused by gunshot injury in a stallion

A seven-year-old stallion with diversion of urinary pass to the thigh due to a urethral fistula caused by gunshot perineal injury was presented to the Urmia University, Veterinary Teaching Hospital. No signs of urinary obstruction or renal failure were observed. Because of inaccessible location of the injured urethra, through a perineal urethrotomy incision, a urinary catheter was effectively a...

Metallic Foreign Body in the Lung Due to Gunshot Injury

A 37 - year- old man came to the hospital with a history of penetrating thoracoabdominal trauma due to gunshot wound in 10 days before. He underwent laparatomy and hepatorrhaphy in that time and right sided chest tube was inserted. Chest CT scan revealed metallic foreign body in lung tissue due to bullet burst. Right thoracotomy was performed and metallic foreign body extracted from lung tissue

[Unusual gunshot injury of the cranium basis].