[Transluminal retrieval of intravasal foreign bodies. Incidence, clinical signs, diagnostics and interventional therapy of catheter embolization].
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.
Morguet
A J
AJ
Medizinische Klinik II-Kardiologie und Pulmologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin. amorguet@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Kruschewski
M
M
Petersein
A
A
Schultheiss
H P
HP
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