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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;28:770
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

A stranger in the heart: vena caval stent migration

Narendra Nath Basu, Reza Motallebzadeh, Olaf Wendler *

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King's College Hospital Medical School, Denmark Hill, SE5 9RS London, UK

Received 7 July 2005; received in revised form 3 August 2005; accepted 5 August 2005.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 207 346 4341; fax: +44 207 346 3433. (Email: olaf.wendler{at}kingsch.nhs.uk).

Key Words: Cardiac foreign body • Computer tomography • Echocardiography • Stent

A 64-year old lady underwent hepatic resection in 2002 for metastases. In 2004 she presented with inferior vena cava obstruction, and underwent percutaneous insertion of a self-expandable metallic stent. Three months later CT-chest and echocardiography showed the stent in the right ventricle. It was removed using cardiopulmonary bypass (Fig. 1 ).


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  		Fig. 1. (A) Thoracic CT scan; (B) Transthoracic echocardiogram showing caval stent in the right ventricle.

 





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