Successful retrieval of a knotted pulmonary artery catheter trapped in the right ventricle using a dormier basket.
We report the case of a 71 year old patient in whom a pulmonary artery catheter (Swan Ganz) formed a knot which was fixed within the right ventricle in the region of the tricuspid valve annulus. The catheter was successfully dislodged to the right atrium, subsequently snared by a dormier basket advanced from the right femoral vein and retrieved by localised cut down of the femoral vein.
Hood
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Department of Cardiology, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow.
McAlpine
H M
HM
Davidson
J A
JA
D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz / Q000009:adverse effects*; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D017211:Treatment Failure