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Percutaneous retrieval of a broken umbilical catheter from left atrium in a premature newborn
C E Ruiz1, G A Nystrom, A I Butt
1Division of Cardiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, California, USA.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 30-week gestational age baby boy weighing 1,117 g born with cesarian section had a broken umbilical vein catheter lodged in the left superior pulmonary vein. We successfully retrieved the foreign body by percutaneous approach using a pigtail catheter and a snare wire under portable fluoroscopy.