{"pk":1059,"title":"Gastric Perforation During MRI After Ingestion of Ferromagnetic Foreign Bodies","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Case Presentation:\n A 65-year-old male with schizophrenia and intellectual disability ingested what was reported to be two AA batteries, prior to a scheduled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study. He developed severe abdominal pain and presented to the emergency department the following day with hypovolemic/septic shock. General surgery retrieved two metal sockets and a clevis pin from the stomach prior to surgical repair of a gastric perforation. This case highlights a rare yet critical outcome of ingesting ferromagnetic foreign bodies prior to an MRI study.\nDiscussion:\n Medical literature on this subject is scarce as indwelling metal foreign bodies are a contraindication to obtaining an MRI. Yet some patients with indwelling metallic foreign bodies proceed with MRI studies due to either challenges in communication such as age, psychiatric/mental debility, or unknowingly having an indwelling metal foreign body. In this case, the patient surreptitiously ingested metal objects prior to obtaining an MRI.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Metallic foreign body, magnetic resonance imaging, gastric perforation"}],"section":"Images in Emergency Medicine","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fc1g4mk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nicholas","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Glover","name_suffix":"","institution":"Desert Regional Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Palm Springs, California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Ryan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Roten","name_suffix":"","institution":"Desert Regional Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Palm Springs, California","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-07-28T03:23:45+02:00","date_accepted":"2021-07-28T03:23:45+02:00","date_published":"2021-07-28T03:24:25+02:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/1059/galley/801/download/"}]}