Paradoxical embolization of a fractured guidewire: Successful retrieval from left atrium using a snare device

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 34-38

  Casserly, Ivan P ^a   Goldstein, Jeffrey A ^a   Rogers, Jason H ^a   Lasala, John M ^a  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign body; Patent foramen ovale; Percutaneous retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; GUIDE WIRE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

DEVICE REMOVAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036733638     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10261     Document Type: Article

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