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Advances in Interventional Cardiology/Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej
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1/2022
vol. 18
 
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Fishing a floating port-a-cath fragment from the right heart chambers

Konstantinos C. Theodoropoulos
1
,
Konstantinos Tsakiridis
1
,
Antonios Kouparanis
1
,
Antonios Ziakas
1
,
George Kassimis
1

  1. 1st Cardiology Department, University General Hospital AHEPA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Adv Interv Cardiol 2022; 18, 1 (67): 85–86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/aic.2022.115630
Online publish date: 2022/04/20
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We present the case of a 52-year-old man with pancreatic cancer who had a port-a-cath implanted for chemotherapy 4 years ago and was referred to our hospital for extraction. This was an incidental finding after a routine chest X-ray. The X-ray showed detachment of the distal port-a-cath fragment which had slipped in the right ventricle (Figure 1 A). A transthoracic echocardiogram demonstrated the detached fragment floating in the right ventricle and protruding in the right atrium through the tricuspid valve (Figure 1 B).
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