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A 56-year-old man with recent kyphoplasty presented with pleuritic chest pain. Imaging showed an intracardiac foreign body. During cardiothoracic surgery, a foreign body (shown in a video) was seen perforating the right atrium and puncturing the right lung. Intracardiac cement embolism was diagnosed.

Gabe Weininger, B.S.
John A. Elefteriades, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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This article was published on October 2, 2021, at NEJM.org.