Open AccessNovel kissing catheter technique for foreign body retrieval
Author(s) -
Vinay R. Jaiswal,
Charan Lanjewar,
Milind Phadke,
Prafulla Kerkar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2069.140865
Subject(s) - medicine , catheter , ductus arteriosus , foreign body , closure (psychology) , surgery , law , political science
We report a novel technique 'the kissing catheter technique' for retrieval of a broken catheter fragment in a patient undergoing closure of a patent ductus arteriosus.