Myocardial Injury and Stroke after Attempted Suicide

Bruno Bertoli Esmanhotto; Carolina Rodrigues Laranjeira Vilar; Juliana Carla Hecke; Bruna Veroneze; Wolner Fernandes de Lima

doi:10.1159/000515573

Myocardial Injury and Stroke after Attempted Suicide

Case Rep Neurol. 2021 Jul 19;13(2):470-474. doi: 10.1159/000515573. eCollection 2021 May-Aug.

Authors

Bruno Bertoli Esmanhotto^{1

2}, Carolina Rodrigues Laranjeira Vilar², Juliana Carla Hecke¹, Bruna Veroneze¹, Wolner Fernandes de Lima³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital e Maternidade São José dos Pinhais, São José dos Pinhais, Brazil.
² Faculty of Medicine, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, Brazil.
³ Department of General Surgery, Hospital e Maternidade São José dos Pinhais, São José dos Pinhais, Brazil.

Abstract

Self-stabbing is an uncommon method of suicide and attempt of suicide, mostly chosen by young men and people with a psychiatric history. A curious case of suicide attempt by self-stabbing with a huge pointed knife in a 56-year-old man is presented which resulted in a myocardial injury and was evaluated with a stroke after cardiorrhaphy.

Keywords: Cardiac injuries; Self-stabbing; Stroke.

Publication types

Case Reports