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Heartworm extraction

MJA 2000; 173: 658

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A teenager with Hodgkin's disease was given chemotherapy via a subclavian vein Port-A-Cath. Previously, a mediastinal mass had been resected by median sternotomy. Routine flush of the port became impossible and a chest x-ray showed the dislodged catheter looped in the pulmonary artery. It was extracted percutaneously from the femoral vein with a snaring loop in a cardiac catheter.

Dorothy J Radford, FRACP
Queensland Centre for Congenital Heart Disease
The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, QLD

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