(1) Department of Radiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Bohseidai, 259-11 Isehara-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan;(2) Department Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Bohseidai, Isehara-shi, Japan
Abstract:
During open mitral commissurotomy in a patient with mitral stenosis, a vent catheter retention ring was accidentally slipped
off into the left atrium and lodged near the orifice of the right renal artery. Nonsurgical retrieval of this intraarterial
foreign body was performed successfully under fluoroscopic guidance in the operating room using a combined approach of angiographic
catheters and guidewire, these being inserted via the arteriotomy site of the right femoral artery created for cardiopulmonary
bypass.