Entrapment of venous catheter following inferior vena caval spasm.

Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn

Department of Cardiology, K.E.M. Hospital, Parel, Bombay, India.

Published: July 1989

This is a report of a case in which a 5F high-flow right coronary catheter with its guide wire was entrapped within the inferior vena cava following a venous spasm. Local infusion of nitroglycerin (NTG) relieved the spasm, and the guidewire-catheter assembly could be safely retrieved.

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