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Boohwi Hong1, Hyunwoo Park1, Yeomyung Yoon1
11 Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Jung-gu, Daejeon, Korea.
Abstract:
A 60-year-old female patient underwent emergency cadaveric liver transplantation. During the insertion of the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) through the left innominate vein, advancement of the catheter was not successful and a knot occurred. An interventional radiologist performed antegrade rigid wire insertion into the PAC and succeeded in loosening the knot in the vessel. We report the successful removal of a knot through intervention without additional invasive procedures in a hemodynamically unstable patient with a coagulopathy.
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