title: [Time-delay to avoid: delayed recovery of a percutaneous central venous catheter fractured and embolized in the pulmonary artery].
abstract: We report the case of a 68-year-old man with a fracture of the catheter of a port-a-cath, dislodged into the right atrium. Two days after the diagnosis, the fragment embolized into the lobar artery of the left lower lung lobe. The catheter was removed using a gooseneck snare.
authors: AORNAS San Giuseppe Moscati, UO Cardiologia - UTIC Citta Ospedaliera, Avellino.
authors: Luigi
authors: L
authors: Sauro
authors: Rosario
authors: R
authors: Sauro
authors: Fiore
authors: F
authors: Manganelli
authors: Francesco
authors: F
authors: Rotondi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020878:Device Removal; D004617:Embolism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D013997:Time Factors