Positional ventricular tachycardia from a fractured mediport catheter with right ventricular migration: A case report

Angiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 557-560

  Gowda, Mamatha R ^a   Gowda, Ramesh M ^a   Khan, Ijaz A ^b,c   Punukollu, Gopikrishna ^a   Chand, Sunil P ^a   Bixon, Rhonda ^a   Reede, Deborah L ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY CARDIAC CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORMETHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBOLISM; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RHYTHM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECUMBENCY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; POSTURE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544260873     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970405500512     Document Type: Article

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