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(Chest. 1971;59:344-346.)
© 1971 American College of Chest Physicians

Intracardiac Catheter as a Foreign Body of Six Years' Duration Resulting in Endocarditis

Walter Silver M.D.1; Aurora DeGuzman M.D.1; Howard A. Joos M.D.1; and Antonio A. Garzon M.D.1

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center and State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn

This case report describes the presence of a catheter in the heart for six years resulting from a ventriculoatrial shunt for the alleviation of hydrocephalus, with the development of persistent bacteremia of 17 weeks' duration. Treatment with antibiotics was unsuccessful until the source of the infection was removed. The presence of the catheter in the right ventricle, main pulmonary artery and left pulmonary artery presented the interesting hemodynamic and clinical features of pulmonary insufficiency and tricuspid stenosis.






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