Late percutaneous extraction of an intracardiac catheter fragment.
A patient was found to have a mobile catheter fragment in the right atrium incidentally during echocardiography. On further investigation, it was learned that the catheter had been inserted 9 years earlier during surgery and had probably been broken during removal. The patient did not experience any symptoms during this period. The catheter was removed percutaneously without any complications using a system similar to the loopsnare catheter.
Department of Cardiology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
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Oto
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Tokgozoglu
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Oram
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Kabakci
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Caymaz
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Oram
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Ugurlu
D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006325:Heart Atria; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors