Successful Retrieval of a Knotted Pulmonary Artery Catheter Trapped in the Right Ventricle Using a Dormier Basket

Abstract

We report the case of a 71 year old patient in whom a pulmonary artery catheter (Swan Ganz) formed a knot which was fixed within the right ventricle in the region of the tricuspid valve annulus. The catheter was successfully dislodged to the right atrium, subsequently snared by a dormier basket advanced from the right femoral vein and retrieved by localised cut down of the femoral vein.

Keywords

Swan-Ganz right ventricle pulmonary artery catheters

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