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Nail Removed From Man's Heart

Posted: Jan 11, 2013 10:58 AM by NBC News
Updated: Jan 11, 2013 11:33 AM

FLORENCIO VARELA, ARGENTINA : A carpenter in Argentina can thank modern medicine he's still alive.

A team of Cardiovascular Surgeons managed to successfully remove a nail lodged in the 19-year-old's heart.

The nail was accidentally fired from a nail gun while the young man was working in a lumber yard.

It hit his sternum and pierced the right ventricle of his heart.

A doctor said the young man was very lucky because the nail acted like a plug and kept him from bleeding to death.

Surgeons were able to remove the three-inch nail in a two-hour operation.

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