1. Paradoxical catheter embolism
- Author
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Maj Gerald Nash and Maj Joseph S. Moylan
- Subjects
Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Autopsy ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Catheterization ,Catheter ,Paradoxical embolism ,Embolism ,Intravenous catheter ,medicine.artery ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Patent foramen ovale ,Cardiology ,Humans ,Renal artery ,business ,Renal Infarct - Abstract
Paradoxical polyethylene catheter embolism occurred in a 41-year-old woman. The fragment of intravenous catheter traversed a patent foramen ovale, lodged in a branch of a renal artery, and caused a renal infarct. When catheter embolism occurs and appropriate studies rule out the usual sites of embolism on the venous side of the circulation, paradoxical embolism to the arterial side should be suspected.
- Published
- 1971