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Case Reports
. 2011 May;23(3):238-40.
doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2010.03.010.

Noncardiac entrapment of a pulmonary artery catheter during heart transplantation: inadvertent cannulation and perforation of the internal thoracic vein

Jayashree Raikhelkar  1 , Anelechi Anyanwu, Sandeep H Krishnan, Ronald A Kahn
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Noncardiac entrapment of a pulmonary artery catheter during heart transplantation: inadvertent cannulation and perforation of the internal thoracic vein

Jayashree Raikhelkar et al. J Clin Anesth. 2011 May.

Abstract

Placement of a central venous catheter into an internal thoracic vein occurs in approximately 2% of all catheterizations. A case in which a pulmonary artery catheter was trapped within the internal thoracic vein during orthotopic heart transplantation is presented.

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