Spontaneously migrated tip of an implantable port catheter into the axillary vein in a patient with severe cough and the subsequent intervention to reposition it.
Migration of an implantable port catheter tip is one of the well-known complications of this procedure, but the etiology of this problem is not clear. We describe here a case of migration of the tip of a port catheter from the right atrium to the right axillary vein in a patient with severe cough. Coughing was suggested for this case as the cause of the catheter tip migration. We corrected the position of the catheter tip via transfemoral snaring.
Ahn
Kyung-Sik
KS
Department of Radiology, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Yoo
Kweon
K
Cha
In Ho
IH
Seo
Tae-Seok
TS
D001367:Axillary Vein; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003371:Cough / Q000150:complications*; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006325:Heart Atria; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography