Case Of The Month
O Wenker
Keywords
medicine, radiology
Citation
O Wenker. Case Of The Month. The Internet Journal of Radiology. 1999 Volume 1 Number 1.
Abstract
What does this old X-ray show?
Figure 1
Answer
The chest X-ray shows a knotted pulmonary artery catheter in the right ventricle.
Cardiac surgery was necessary to remove this PA catheter (shown in image below)
Figure 3
The knotted pulmonary catheter after removal from the right ventricle:
Figure 4
This case was first published on the educational multimedia CD-ROM “Central Venous Catheters” distributed by Cook Critical Care Inc.
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