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Case report: surgical removal of a migrated needle in right ventricle of an intravenous drug user

Overview of attention for article published in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, December 2017
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Title
Case report: surgical removal of a migrated needle in right ventricle of an intravenous drug user
Published in
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13011-017-0134-1
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Authors

Xianming Fu, Kai Chen, Xiaobo Liao, Kangjun Shen

Abstract

Illicit drug use has become an increasing public health and social concern in the past decades worldwide. Intravenous injection has an elevated risk of infection. Needle embolism is a rare complication of intravenous drug users, Retained broken needles can lead to local complications, such as infection, but they also have the potential to embolize to heart or lung, and lead to serious complications. We reported a rare case of an intravenous drug user which a retained broken needle fragments in the inferior wall of the right ventricle. We performed a successful surgery and give our comments and recommendations for illicit drug use worldwide and in China. Illicit Drug use becomes a global problem because of its health and social harmfulness. To help drug addicts and provide prevention and treatment services are the obligations and responsibilities of all medical workers.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 14 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 21%
Other 2 14%
Lecturer 1 7%
Librarian 1 7%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 5 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 7%
Social Sciences 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 5 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 June 2021.
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#14,720,444
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#516
of 685 outputs
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#240,973
of 442,692 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#8
of 11 outputs
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