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Fatal right-sided nonbacterial endocarditis associated with pulmonary artery catheterization
1Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City.
Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Pulmonary artery (PA) catheterization is now a routine procedure in the care of critically ill patients. We report a case in which a pulmonary artery catheter was a major factor in the demise of a patient who developed adult respiratory distress syndrome following a septic abortion.