[The surgical treatment of catheter-related cardiac and vascular embolisms]

Basing on the experience of the surgical treatment of 15 patients with catheteric embolism of the heart and vessels the authors concluded that septic occurrence in given patient category requires urgent operative intervention. In catheteric heart embolism in patients with heart defects surgical interventions may be performed in nonperfusing deep (28-25 degrees C) hypothermal protection, permitting simultaneous removal of heart foreign body and to correlate heart defects not requiring continuous circulation control.