title: Noncardiac entrapment of a pulmonary artery catheter during heart transplantation: inadvertent cannulation and perforation of the internal thoracic vein.
abstract: Placement of a central venous catheter into an internal thoracic vein occurs in approximately 2% of all catheterizations. A case in which a pulmonary artery catheter was trapped within the internal thoracic vein during orthotopic heart transplantation is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA. jayashree.raikhelkar@mountsinai.org
authors.forename: Jayashree
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raikhelkar
authors.forename: Anelechi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anyanwu
authors.forename: Sandeep H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Krishnan
authors.forename: Ronald A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged