title: Successful non-surgical extraction of a knotted pulmonary artery catheter trapped in the right ventricle.
abstract: A patient is presented in whom a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) formed a knot which was fixed in the region of the tricuspid valve chordea. The PAC was successfully and nonsurgically freed from its attachment and removed. A guide wire was introduced by the distal port of the PAC and under fluoroscopy the PAC was manipulated free and then extracted easily.
authors.affiliation: Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, Quebec.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tremblay
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taillefer
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Hardy
mesh_terms: D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D014261:Tricuspid Valve