Percutaneous retrieval of a broken umbilical catheter from left atrium in a premature newborn.
A 30-week gestational age baby boy weighing 1,117 g born with cesarian section had a broken umbilical vein catheter lodged in the left superior pulmonary vein. We successfully retrieved the foreign body by percutaneous approach using a pigtail catheter and a snare wire under portable fluoroscopy.
Division of Cardiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, California, USA.
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Ruiz
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Zhang
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006325:Heart Atria; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008297:Male; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D011667:Pulmonary Veins; D011677:Punctures; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D014471:Umbilical Veins