Indwelling pulmonary artery catheters. Their relationship to aspetic thrombotic endocardial vegetations.
To assess the incidence of aseptic thrombotic endocardial vegetations (TEV) after pulmonary artery catheterization with Swan-Ganz catheters we reviewed all autopsy reports for a two-year period in our hospital. In 413 autopsies there were five instances of aseptic TEV: 3 in 88 patients with Swan-Ganz catheters, 1 in 120 patients with central venous catheters, and 1 in the 205 patients without central vascular catheters. The incidence of TEV is significantly greater in patients with Swan-Ganz catheters than in other patients.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000382:microbiology; D001344:Autopsy; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000009:adverse effects; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000209:etiology*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000382:microbiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*; D013997:Time Factors; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000382:microbiology