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Intraoperative pulmonary embolization by the tip of a polystan venous return catheter

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In a 10-year-old girl being treated for ventricular septal defect, the tip of a Polystan venous return catheter broke away when the catheter was being removed at the time of bypass disconnection. Following fluoroscopic identification of the tip in the left peripheral pulmonary artery, it was removedvia arteriotomy.

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  1. The Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, 812, Fukuoka, Japan

    Yoshito Kawachi MD, Ryiji Tominaga, Jiro Tanaka & Kouichi Tokunaga

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Kawachi, Y., Tominaga, R., Tanaka, J. et al. Intraoperative pulmonary embolization by the tip of a polystan venous return catheter. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 18, 478–479 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471477

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