Inadvertent Entrapment of a Central Venous Catheter by a Purse-String Suture during Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Case Report | Zendy

Abdorasoul Anvaripour | Zendy; Forouzan Yazdanian | Zendy; Mohammad-Zia Totonchi | Zendy; Houshang Shahryari | Zendy

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Inadvertent Entrapment of a Central Venous Catheter by a Purse-String Suture during Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Case Report

Author(s) -

Abdorasoul Anvaripour,

Forouzan Yazdanian,

Mohammad-Zia Totonchi,

Houshang Shahryari

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

case reports in anesthesiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-6390

pISSN - 2090-6382

DOI - 10.1155/2011/760426

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiopulmonary bypass , entrapment , surgery , catheter , mitral valve replacement , fibrous joint , mitral valve , cardiology

A 65-year-old female patient with severe mitral valve stenosis plus coronary artery disease was scheduled for mitral valve replacement and 2-vessel coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgeries simultaneously. After a successful procedure, resistance was met on a CVC withdrawal. During postoperative fluoroscopy, fixation of the catheter at the heart was confirmed which necessitated reopening the chest, cutting the suture, and removing the catheter. When a catheter became hard to withdraw after open heart surgery, we should never withdraw it forcefully and blindly. Although rare, one should consider inadvertent entrapment of CVC by a suture as the possible cause.

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