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Ventricular entrapment of a Swan-Ganz catheter: a technique for nonsurgical removal
C Lazzam1, T A Sanborn, F Christian
1Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
Entrapment of a balloon-tipped flow-directed catheter by atrial sutures during open heart surgery is a rare but serious complication. Several methods have been used to free such catheters with nonsurgical techniques. A case of entrapment in the right ventricle after repair of a ventricular septal defect is presented and a method for percutaneous removal described.