The case is believed to be the first time a woman’s life has been saved by her silicone breast implants (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT)<\/i><\/p>\n
Washington (AFP) – A woman’s life was likely saved by her silicone breast implants after she was shot in the chest at close range while walking down a street in Toronto, doctors have said.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old’s left breast implant deflected the bullet away from her vital organs into the other breast, according to a case study published last week in the SAGE medical journal.<\/p>\n
The incident, which occurred in 2018, is one of only a handful of cases where a woman was saved by her breast implants and is believed to be the first involving silicone ones, the study said.<\/p>\n
The patient, who was not named, went to the local emergency department in the Canadian city after feeling pain in her chest and seeing blood.<\/p>\n
Surgeons found a single entry wound and retrieved a bullet from below her right breast, which police forensics later determined was a copper jacketed 0.40 caliber, the study said.<\/p>\n
They removed her implants and photographs with the study and CT scans show the bullet passed through her left implant and hit her right one.<\/p>\n
“Based on trajectory of bullet entry clinically and evaluation radiologically, the only source of bullet deflection of the bullet is the left breast implant,” it said.<\/p>\n
“This implant overlies the heart and intrathoracic cavity and therefore likely saved the woman’s life.”<\/p>\n
Surgeon Giancarlo McEvenue, who wrote the case study, told CNN the bullet entered the woman’s left side and ricocheted across her sternum into the right breast.<\/p>\n
“The implant caused the change in the trajectory of the bullet,” he said.<\/p>\n
“On the left hand side is the heart and lungs — if the bullet would have gone into the chest, she would have had a much more serious, possibly life-threatening injury.”<\/p>\n
Despite being shot in the chest at close range, the woman escaped relatively unscathed with a fractured rib and damaged implants.<\/p>\n
The shooting was under investigation, the study said.<\/p>\n
“The firearm was never recovered, and the shooter remains unknown.”<\/p>\n
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The case is believed to be the first time a woman’s life has been saved by her silicone breast implants (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT) Washington (AFP) – A woman’s life was likely saved by her silicone breast implants after she was shot in the chest at close range while walking down a street in Toronto, doctors have…<\/p>\n