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  • Title: An infrequent complication of Swan-Ganz catheters.
    Author: Racionero MA, Prados C, Acitores I, Lazaro-Carrasco MT, Alvarez-Sala R.
    Journal: J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino); 1995 Oct; 36(5):519-20. PubMed ID: 8522576.
    Abstract:
    The Swan-Ganz catheter complications are infrequent, the most typical one being cardiac arrhythmias. The breaking and embolization of a catheter fragment into the pulmonary vascular system are exceptional and, in any case, benign. We present a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension to the embolization of a Swan-Ganz catheter fragment into the right pulmonary artery which disappeared with the movements of the fragment to the lung periphery.
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