Bhatti W A, Sinha S, Rowlands P
Department of Radiology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7, UK.
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2000 May-Jun;23(3):224-5. doi: 10.1007/s002700010047.
A patient was referred to us with a tightly knotted Swan-Ganz catheter. The catheter could not be removed by conventional simple methods. We describe a minimally invasive means of removal of the catheter using an Amplatz gooseneck snare and an angioplasty balloon. This allowed the catheter to be removed without trauma.