title: Spontaneous chemoport fracture and cardiac migration.
abstract: Central venous access devices are routinely used in oncology for delivering chemotherapy of which implantable chemoports are the most common. Spontaneous breakage and migration of the catheters is a very rare but known complication of the procedure. Patients will usually present with cardiac manifestations in form of chest pain or arrythmias. Herein we report a case of spontaneous breakage and cardiac migration in which the patient was asymptomatic. Patient was successfully managed by an interventional cardiologist.
authors.affiliation: Department of surgical oncology, Bhagwan mahaveer cancer hospital and research centre, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017 India.
authors.forename: Mishal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of surgical oncology, Bhagwan mahaveer cancer hospital and research centre, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017 India.
authors.forename: Sanjeev
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patni
authors.affiliation: Department of cardiology, Sms hospital jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan India.
authors.forename: Rajeev
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bagarahatta
keywords: Chemoport; Fracture; Migration