Intracardiac Knotting of the Catheter during Right Heart Catheterization
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 23 (1), 81-83
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.23.1.81
Abstract
A complication of right heart catheterization is reported in which the catheter became knotted and entangled in the chordae tendineae of the tricuspid valve. Removal required open cardiotomy with hypothermia and temporary inflow occlusion.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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