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Retained catheter dilator in right ventricular outflow tract for 22 years
Christopher T Holley1, Bryan A Whitson, Stefan C Bertog
1University of Minnesota, Department of Surgery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|August 2, 2013
Abstract:
We report the case of a 61-year-old male with a retained catheter dilator in the right ventricular outflow tract for over 22 years. The management of retained intravascular foreign objects in the myocardium is reviewed.