Successful non-surgical extraction of a knotted pulmonary artery catheter trapped in the right ventricle.
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A patient is presented in whom a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) formed a knot which was fixed in the region of the tricuspid valve chordea. The PAC was successfully and nonsurgically freed from its attachment and removed. A guide wire was introduced by the distal port of the PAC and under fluoroscopy the PAC was manipulated free and then extracted easily.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie
دوره 39 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992