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Case Reports
Entrapment of pulmonary artery catheter in a suture at the inferior vena cava cannulation site.
- Liguang Huang, Ahmad Elsharydah, Atta Nawabi, and Randall C Cork.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Science Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, USA.
- J Clin Anesth. 2004 Nov 1;16(7):557-9.
AbstractEntrapment of a pulmonary artery catheter (Swan-Ganz catheter) in the heart, vena cava, or pulmonary artery is a very rare and serious complication that may lead to life-threatening complications such as cardiac rupture, pulmonary artery rupture, cardiac tamponade, among others, if not recognized and treated early. We report entrapment of a Swan-Ganz catheter in the purse-string suture at the inferior vena cava cannulation site for a patient undergoing aortic valve replacement. This situation required a repeat sternotomy to release the pulmonary artery catheter.
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