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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
[Percutaneous removal of a guide wire from the right ventricle and pulmonary artery (author's transl)]
Rofo : Fortschritte Auf Dem Gebiete Der Rontgenstrahlen Und Der Nuklearmedizin
|May 1, 1976
Abstract:
Successful removal of an opaque guide-wire from the right ventricle and left pulmonary artery is reported. The wire was extracted into the right external iliac and common femoral vein and then removed by a venotomy. Percutaneous removal of embolised foreign bodies should be carried out as soon as possible. An attempt at percutaneous removal is to be preferred to a thoracotomy because of the considerably reduced risk.
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