Just Because We Can, Does It Mean We Should? Conservative Management of Penetrating Missile Injury to the Heart

Heart Lung Circ. 2025 May 31:S1443-9506(25)00323-3. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2025.04.083. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Kanhua Yin¹, Garima Thakkar², John M Forman², Sumaiya Sarwar², Heather R Klepacz², Dustin R Neel², Michael Moncure², Stanley M Augustin²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA. Electronic address: kyin@umkc.edu.
² Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA.

PMID: 40451713
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2025.04.083

No abstract available

Keywords: Nonoperative management; Penetrating cardiac injury; Retained cardiac missile.