A 47-Year-Old Woman with a Retained Central Venous Catheter Line Guidewire Presenting with a Right Atrial Thrombus Requiring Removal During Open Heart Surgery: A Case Report

Ahmad Alsaka Amini; Abeer Alzuabi; Mohannad Baniyaseen; Maro Gharbi; Mohamed Abdel Aziz; Mohamed Magdy Abbas

doi:10.12659/AJCR.939908

13 September 2023 : Case report United Arab Emirates

A 47-Year-Old Woman with a Retained Central Venous Catheter Line Guidewire Presenting with a Right Atrial Thrombus Requiring Removal During Open Heart Surgery: A Case Report

Challenging differential diagnosis, Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Rare coexistence of disease or pathology

Ahmad Alsaka Amini^1ABEF*, Abeer Alzuabi^1ABCE, Mohannad Baniyaseen^2BCD, Maro Gharbi^1EFG, Mohamed Abdel Aziz^3D, Mohamed Magdy Abbas^4F

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.939908

Am J Case Rep 2023; 24:e939908

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Figure 6. Postoperative chest X-ray showing endotracheal tube, sternotomy sutures, and newly inserted left internal jugular central venous catheter. A curvilinear radio-opaque shadow is seen at the left-upper quadrant, which is the remnant of the guide wire (red arrow).

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A 47-Year-Old Woman with a Retained Central Venous Catheter Line Guidewire Presenting with a Right Atrial Thrombus Requiring Removal During Open Heart Surgery: A Case Report

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