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(Chest. 1972;62:345-346.)
© 1972 American College of Chest Physicians

Catheter Entrapment in a Chiari Network Involving an Atrial Septal Defect

Arnold Goldschlager M.D.1; Nora Goldschlager M.D.1; Hollister Brewster M.D.1; and Jerold Kaplan M.D.1

1 Cardiopulmonary and Cardiovascular Surgery Units, Presbyterian Hospital, Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Peninsula Hospital and Medical Center, Burlingame, California

During cardiac catheterization in a 51-year-old man with secundum atrial septal defect, catheter entrapment in the area of the interatrial defect occurred. At thoracotomy, the catheter was found to be caught by and looped within a Chiari network involving the septal defect, a hitherto unreported complication of cardiac catheterization.






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