Technique for retrieval of a guidewire lodged in a vena cava filter.
A case in which the guidewire used to place a percutaneous jugular central line became entangled in the limbs of a Trapease inferior vena cava filter is presented. A 7F sheath introducer was fashioned into a monorail system to uncurl the wire's J tip and remove the wire without disturbing the filter's position. This report highlights an increasingly frequent clinical scenario and an inexpensive effective method for resolution.
Wholey
Michael
M
Department of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Toursarkissian
Boulos
B
Velez
George
G
Morales
Robert P
RP
Cadavid
Gilberto
G
D000368:Aged; D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016306:Vena Cava Filters