title: [Transluminal retrieval of intravasal foreign bodies. Incidence, clinical signs, diagnostics and interventional therapy of catheter embolization].
abstract: Patients with central venous lines or implanted Hickman catheters and port systems, suffer catheter embolization in 0.1-2.8% of the cases due to material fatigue or medical malpractice. In a 58-year-old vascular surgery patient, a central venous line catheter fragment was successfully retrieved from the pulmonary artery using a snare catheter via a transfemoral approach. From this case, we discuss the incidence, clinical aspects, diagnosis and interventional therapy of catheter embolization.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik II-Kardiologie und Pulmologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin. amorguet@zedat.fu-berlin.de
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Morguet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kruschewski
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Petersein
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Schultheiss
mesh_terms: D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000502:physiology; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery