Removal of a retained intracardiac guidewire fragment reaching out to subcutaneous tissue of thoracic wall in a pediatric patient

Abdullah Özer

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2019.16887

Abdullah Özer¹, Yiğit Kılıç², Arif Özbay¹, Volkan Şıvgın³, Barış Mardin¹, Erkan İriz¹, Levent Oktar¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gazi University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey
²Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
³Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2019.16887

The use of vascular access lines in both central venous and arterial sites has significantly increased over the past decades. A retained intravascular foreign body is a well-known complication of central venous catheter placement in children as well as in adults. Herein, we present our experience of surgical removal of a retained intracardiac guidewire fragment penetrating into the subcutaneous tissue of the thoracic wall in a pediatric case.

Keywords : Intracardiac foreign body, pediatric, surgery

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