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1Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology, Surgery and Cardiology, U.N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre Civil Hospital Campus, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India.
Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia
|September 12, 2007
Abstract:
Knotting of a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) is a rare complication which is usually seen to occur in the right ventricle. We describe knotting of a PAC in the right atrium and its extraction by non surgical means through the femoral route.
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