Clinical implication of inadvertent monitoring of pulmonary artery pressure via a "left atrial" catheter.
A patient is described in whom a left atrial catheter was inadvertently wedged in a pulmonary vein following mitral valve replacement. The pulmonary vein wedge pressure obtained approximated the pulmonary artery pressure and was suggestive of paraprosthetic mitral valve regurgitation.
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011669:Pulmonary Wedge Pressure