Snare retrieval of migrated ventriculoatrial shunt.
Among the numerous complications of ventriculoatrial shunting, discontinuity and migration of a catheter fragment into the heart or pulmonary arteries is only rarely encountered. Percutaneous snare retrieval of shunt tubing from the pulmonary arteries is described in a patient presenting with signs of shunt malfunction.
James
C A
CA
Department of Radiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock 72202-3591, USA.
McFarland
D R
DR
Wormuth
C J
CJ
Teo
C M
CM
D000328:Adult; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D011859:Radiography