Removal of Broken Cardiac Catheters

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To the Editor: Recently, Massumi and Ross1 described removal of a polyethylene catheter from the superior vena cava with a snare-like device fashioned from standard cardiac catheter and guide wire. We should like to report two additional attempts, one successful and one unsuccessful.The first patient, a 28-year-old Negro, was admitted to another hospital with multiple injuries incurred in an automobile accident. An indwelling, nonradiopaque polyethylene catheter placed in the right antecubital vein subsequently was severed and migrated proximally. On transfer to the Seattle Veterans Administration Hospital no sign of the catheter was apparent on multiple x-ray studies and fluoroscopy. . . .

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