Successful non-surgical extraction of a knotted pulmonary artery catheter trapped in the right ventricle.
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.
Tremblay
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Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, Quebec.
Taillefer
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Hardy
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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