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Br Heart J 59:77-80 doi:10.1136/hrt.59.1.77
  • Research Article

Chronic constrictive pericarditis caused by self-mutilation with sewing needles. A case report and review of published reports.

  1. B E Keogh,
  2. C M Oakley,
  3. K M Taylor
  1. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London.

      Abstract

      A 34 year old woman with a history of self-mutilation developed severe constrictive pericarditis with sterile, calcified intrapericardial abscess cavities as a result of inserting sewing needles into her chest seven years previously. After pericardiectomy she made a good recovery.

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