[Foreign bodies in the heart].

During 1987-2000, in Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Kaunas Medical University Hospital 30 patients with cardiac injuries and foreign bodies in the heart were treated. Average age of patients--37 years. Eighteen patients were extra operated with symptoms of acute pericardial tamponade and shock. We found right ventricular involvement for 5 patients; 9 patients had left ventricular injury, 2 had right atrium injury and 1 patient had left atrium injury. Two patients had foreign bodies in the heart (one--needles, one--bullet). We present two rare cases of foreign bodies in the heart.