Retrieval of port-A catheter fragment from the main and right pulmonary arteries 3 years after dislodgment.
Vascular access (VA) is one of the serious problems that chemotherapy recipient cancer patients face. Fractures of catheter and cardiac migration rarely occur; the catheter fragments migrate distally along the blood stream finally lodging anywhere in the vena cava, right atrium, right ventricle, or the main pulmonary artery or one of its branches. Percutaneous retrieval method is always suggested first.
Elkhoury
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Department of General Surgery, Saint Georges Hospital University Medical Center, University of Balamand, Beirut, Lebanon. drkhourymansour@hotmail.com
Boeckx
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Chahine
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Feghali
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D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000009:adverse effects; D020878:Device Removal; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents