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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 39, 293-295, Copyright © 1992 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Successful non-surgical extraction of a knotted pulmonary artery catheter trapped in the right ventricle

N Tremblay, J Taillefer and JF Hardy
Departement d'Anesthesie-Reanimation, Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal, Quebec.

A patient is presented in whom a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) formed a knot which was fixed in the region of the tricuspid valve chordea. The PAC was successfully and nonsurgically freed from its attachment and removed. A guide wire was introduced by the distal port of the PAC and under fluoroscopy the PAC was manipulated free and then extracted easily.




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