RUPTURE OF PULMONARY-ARTERY INDUCED BY SWAN-GANZ CATHETER - SUCCESS OF COIL EMBOLIZATION

Authors
TAYORO J DEQUIN PF DELHOMMAIS A ALISON D PERROTIN D
Citation
J. Tayoro et al., RUPTURE OF PULMONARY-ARTERY INDUCED BY SWAN-GANZ CATHETER - SUCCESS OF COIL EMBOLIZATION, Intensive care medicine, 23(2), 1997, pp. 198-200
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Intensive care medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
03424642
Volume
23
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
198 - 200
Database
ISI
SICI code
0342-4642(1997)23:2<198:ROPIBS>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
A 75-year-old woman suffered severe haemoptysis after insertion of a S wan-Ganz catheter in an intensive care unit, Control of the pulmonary artery haemorrhage was quickly and successfully achieved with stainles s steel coils as the embolic material.