A former soldier has had a bullet removed from his heart 39 years after being shot by an American soldier during the Vietnam War.Le Dinh Hung, 60, had been in pain since 1968, when he was wounded while fighting for the communists in Quang Tri province, scene of some of the war's fiercest fighting and near to the demilitarised zone that separated North and South Vietnam.
Dr Nguyen Sinh Hien removed the inch-long bullet, which went through Mr Hung's stomach, damaged his cardiac valve and came to rest at the back of his heart, "It is the strangest case that I have ever seen," said the surgeon after the three-hour operation in Hanoi. "Normally a person with a bullet in his heart would die immediately."
Mr Hung's damaged heart valve was replaced with an artificial one.
Source: Telegraph
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