[Perforation of the right ventricle by a central venous catheter (author's transl)].

Two letal iatrogenic cardiac perforations by a subclavian catheter are reported. The cause of this rare but most serious complication is based on the sliding down of a subclavian catheter left in for 9 days in one case, in the other one on the introduction of a polyvinyl-catheter into the right ventricle.