[Time-delay to avoid: delayed recovery of a percutaneous central venous catheter fractured and embolized in the pulmonary artery].

We report the case of a 68-year-old man with a fracture of the catheter of a port-a-cath, dislodged into the right atrium. Two days after the diagnosis, the fragment embolized into the lobar artery of the left lower lung lobe. The catheter was removed using a gooseneck snare.

Bare-metal stents versus drug-eluting stents for primary angioplasty: long-term outcome.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary intervention (PCI) is the most used myocardial revascularization technique for patients with coronary artery disease. Primary PCI with stent implantation is widely considered the gold standard for the treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients. Coronary stents, compared with balloon angioplasty, have reduced focal lesion restenosis.