An infrequent complication of Swan-Ganz catheters.
The Swan-Ganz catheter complications are infrequent, the most typical one being cardiac arrhythmias. The breaking and embolization of a catheter fragment into the pulmonary vascular system are exceptional and, in any case, benign. We present a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension to the embolization of a Swan-Ganz catheter fragment into the right pulmonary artery which disappeared with the movements of the fragment to the lung periphery.
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D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery