Racionero M A, Prados C, Acitores I, Lazaro-Carrasco M T, Alvarez-Sala R
J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino). 1995 Oct;36(5):519-20.
The Swan-Ganz catheter complications are infrequent, the most typical one being cardiac arrhythmias. The breaking and embolization of a catheter fragment into the pulmonary vascular system are exceptional and, in any case, benign. We present a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension to the embolization of a Swan-Ganz catheter fragment into the right pulmonary artery which disappeared with the movements of the fragment to the lung periphery.
