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Table 2 Patients’ characteristics

From: Successful percutaneous transvenous retrieval of intravascular fractured port catheter: a single center experience

Characteristics

Median or No.

Patients, no.

10

Age, years

49.1 ± 14.7 (29–84)

Pain/no

1/10

Intervala

36.5 ± 42.9 (1–149)

Location of catheter

 BV-SVA-RA-RV

1

 RA-RV

3

 RV-PA

4

 SVC-IVC

1

 SVC-IVC-HV

1

Access vein

 Internal jugular vein

2

 Right femoral vein

8

Procedure time(min)

24.1 ± 8.3 (10–36)

Complications, no

0

  1. a between implantation and discovery of catheter fracture(days)
  2. BV brachiocephalic vein, PA pulmonary artery, SVC superior vena cava, RA right atrium, RV right ventricle, HV hepatic vein, IJV internal jungle vein, RFV right femoral vein
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

ISSN: 1749-8090

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