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(Chest. 1994;106:603-605.)
© 1994 American College of Chest Physicians

Hepatic Vein Obstruction Due to Swan-Ganz Catheter Placement

Michael S. Davis M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 From the Pulmonary Section, Department of Medicine, Doctors Hospital of Manteca, Manteca, Calif.

Complications from Swan-Ganz catheters during insertion, long-term placement, or removal have been known since its development. I describe the unusual presentation of a pacing Swan-Ganz catheter mispositioned into the hepatic vein producing vascular obstruction, yet with adequate cardiac pacing.






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