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J Am Coll Cardiol, 1989; 13:1422-1424
© 1989 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Ventricular entrapment of a Swan-Ganz catheter: a technique for nonsurgical removal

C Lazzam, TA Sanborn, and F Christian Jr

Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.

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.


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