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In three critically ill patients, central venous catheter - associated foreign bodies were identified while the patients were in the intensive care unit. Two patients had fragments of retained catheter; in the third patient a guide-wire was lost within the vascular tree. The catheter fragments were associated with clinical symptoms while side effects were not observed with loss of the guide-wire. All three foreign bodies were removed without complications
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Hehir, D.J., Cross, K.S., Kirkham, R. et al. Foreign body complications of central venous catheterisation in critically Ill patients. I.J.M.S. 161, 49–51 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02942083
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