Ingested Porcupine Quill Pokes Hole in Woman's Aorta

She had gone to a different emergency room with the same symptoms a week earlier, but was sent home because the doctors there thought that she was having a panic attack, according to the case report, published in September in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. On her second visit to the hospital, however, healthcare providers discovered that the woman had fluid in the sac around her heart.