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A Different Intracardiac Mass: Retained Sponge
Author(s) -
Imren Yildirim,
Tasoglu Irfan,
Ozkose Zerrin
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00213.x
Subject(s) - intracardiac injection , cardiopulmonary bypass , sponge , ventricle , medicine , foreign body , surgery , biology , botany
We report a case involving a surgical sponge retained following an aortic valve replacement. The surgical sponge was placed into the left ventricle to protect calcified debris from falling down into the left ventricular cavity. However, the sponge was forgotten and left inside the patient. We identified the retained surgical sponge by transesophageal echocardiography, which was performed because of a difficulty in weaning the patient from the cardiopulmonary bypass.