A Foreign Body Inside the Pulmonary Artery After Heart Transplantation.

A 40-year-old man with a history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, progressive dyspnea and refractory ascites was referred to our hospital for heart transplantation. The patient underwent heart transplantation successfully from female donor who died of intracranial hemorrhage. After heart transplantation, the patient recovered uneventfully and discharged 1 month later. By chance, we found a linear opacity around the left hilum on the follow-up chest x-ray, 3 months later. On the review of the series of chest x-ray, it was also visible on immediate post-operative chest x-ray (Figure 1A, black arrow). Chest computed tomography showed a foreign body inside the left main pulmonary artery (Figure 1B, solid arrow). He received percutaneous intervention for a foreign body removal and it (Figure 1C, solid arrow) was successfully retrieved with a snare (Figure 1C, open arrow). It was a long fragment of the central venous catheter