title: [Intracardiac catheter fragment. Presentation of a clinical case].
abstract: This is a case report of a 2 year/5 month old female patient with a venous catheter fragment lodged in her right heart and pulmonary artery. The patient was familiar to us because of her ventricular septum defect and pulmonary hypertension secondary to the heart defect. Routine X-rays showed a fragment of the catheter lodged in the heart. The physical examination showed nothing more in addition to that derived from the ventricular defect. Her records included a clavicular phlebotomy at 2 months when suffering from a severe case of dehydration. The cardiac catheterization done at 16 months confirmed the finding of the fragment, which was extracted transluminally. The intracardiac extraction of the venous catheter and the simultaneous closure of the septal defect comprised the treatment applied.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cardiología Infantil, Hospital de Niños J.M. de los Ríos, Caracas, Venezuela.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amilachwari
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reitich
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Regalado de Amilachwari
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zerpa
mesh_terms: D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003681:Dehydration / Q000628:therapy; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology; D007223:Infant; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Fragmento de catéter intracardiaco. Presentación de un caso clínico.