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J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
January 2025
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address:
Objectives: This systematic review aims to tabulate and analyze the published literature regarding pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) entrapment during cardiac surgery.
Design: Systematic review.
Setting: Case reports and series.
BMC Cardiovasc Disord
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Guidewire entrapment (GE) is a rare complication that warrants complex interventions or surgical procedures. Here, we report the removal of an entrapped guidewire using excimer laser coronary angioplasty (ELCA) in a case of chronic total occlusion (CTO). Plaque tissue trapped with the guidewire was also removed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Invasive Cardiol
January 2025
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Objectives: The Wolverine cutting balloon (CB) (Boston Scientific) is a specialized balloon catheter with microsurgical blades that is used for balloon-resistant lesions. The Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database serves as a repository for reports of medical device complications. The aim of this study was to analyze complications associated with CB use during percutaneous coronary intervention in real-world contemporary practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech
February 2025
Department of Vascular Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia.
A 2-day-old neonate was referred to the vascular surgery service owing to concerns of limb perfusion after entrapment of a microcatheter in the middle cerebral artery. The catheter was inserted via the umbilical artery to treat a vein of Galen arteriovenous malformation. This catheter inadvertently became entrapped owing to device failure, was cut at the insertion site, and left in situ for 3 months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt Urol Nephrol
January 2025
Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, 2301 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA.
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