[Percutaneous removal of a guide wire from the right ventricle and pulmonary artery (author's transl)].
Successful removal of an opaque guide-wire from the right ventricle and left pulmonary artery is reported. The wire was extracted into the right external iliac and common femoral vein and then removed by a venotomy. Percutaneous removal of embolised foreign bodies should be carried out as soon as possible. An attempt at percutaneous removal is to be preferred to a thoracotomy because of the considerably reduced risk.
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D004617:Embolism / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery
Perkutane Entfernung eines Führungsdrahtes aus dem rechten Ventrikel und der Arteria pulmonalis