Retrieval of a broken catheter from the aorta without operation
β Scribed by V. R. K. Rao; D. Rout; R. P. Sapru
- Book ID
- 104730995
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 460 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-3940
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
A critically ill premature neonate (birthweight 1,395 g, gestational age 30 wk) had a broken silastic catheter lodged in the left atrium. We successfully retrieved the foreign body by percutaneous approach using a helical basket catheter under echocardiographic control. Such a therapeutical option f
Delivery of a balloon-expandable stent was complicated by a systemic embolisation. The radio-opaque stent was lost in the descending aorta, but then removed by using a loop basket intravascular retriever set without any peripheral arterial complication.