Knotting of a flow‐directed catheter about a cardiac structure

Meister, Steven G.; Furr, Charles M.; Engel, Toby R.; Sones, Maurice; Frankl, William S.

doi:10.1002/ccd.1810030209

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“…In spite of all these techniques there are reports describing leaving a catheter in situ for 16 months. Meisters et al 8 have described a catheter lodged around the tricuspid valve apparatus, and since the patient was very sick, no surgical removal was possible. The PAC-Man trial and the ESCAPE trials9 have listed the complications of pulmonary artery monitoring.…”

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Knots in the cath lab, an embarrassing complication of radial angiography

Gupta¹,

Praveen²,

Ahmed³

et al. 2013

Heart Asia

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Most case reports or series describe knots in the venous system such as knots of Swan-Ganz catheters, pacing wires or thermodilution catheters. Knots during radial angiography are relatively rare. Here we describe a simple method of unravelling a radial knot via the femoral route, together with a review of the literature on knots in the catherisation laboratory and the techniques to deal with them.

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Knots in the cath lab, an embarrassing complication of radial angiography

Gupta¹,

Praveen²,

Ahmed³

et al. 2013

Heart Asia

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“…In one case (not with a pulmonary artery flotation catheter) the catheter was removed by cardiotomy' and in another the catheter was left in situ for over a year as the patient was too ill to withstand an operation for its removal. 2 Although knots in pulmonary artery flotation catheters are rare, there are many reports of them in the literature and of their successful removal, either by drawing the knot tight and then pulling them through a venotomi or by using guidewires to unknot the catheter. 4 A knot around an intracardiac structure is more serious.…”

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Looping of a Pulmonary Artery Flotation Catheter around a Papillary Muscle

Hollis

Ramsay

Bunton

1989

Anaesth Intensive Care

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CASE REPORT We report a rare but serious hazard associated with pulmonary artery flotation catheter insertion. The patient was a 75-year-old female anaesthetised for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. She had a readily visible goitre which was thought to have a retrosternal extension. An 8.5 Fr sheath was introduced into the right internal jugular vein at the level of the cricoid cartilage over a guidewire which initially passed posterior to the goitre. A 7.5 Fr pulmonary artery flotation catheter was advanced through the sheath and a right atrial *F.

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“…There are various methods of removing knots, involving intravascular catheter maneuvering, passing the wire to straighten it, or use of grasping forceps or snare devices to immobilize the catheter over the knot [1,2]. Surgical removal of the catheter after relocating it to a safe site is also possible but is preferred in cases without extra dissection of vessels [3].…”

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