@Article{Çimen2015,
journal="Advances in Interventional Cardiology/Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej",
issn="1734-9338",
volume="11",
number="1",
year="2015",
title="Short communicationCatheter inside the right heart for 22 years: to intervene or not to intervene?",
abstract="Treatment of a central venous catheter emboli that has been asymptomatic for a number of years is controversial. A 56-year-old male patient who had an operation for sinus Valsalva aneurism rupture 22 years ago was referred to cardiology department for routine control. He had a mass inside the right heart on echocardiographic examination, and computed tomography revealed that this mass was an embolic piece of catheter. Catheters that have stayed inside the heart for a long time are removed due to the risk of distal embolisation and endocarditis, but the risk of removal is not known. Non-invasive follow-up of asymptomatic patients is often preferred because of the stabilisation of the embolised catheter due to endothelisation and the risk of complications during removal. Treatment of patients with catheter-piece emboli who are asymptomatic should be individualised, taking into account the risk of thrombosis, arrhythmia, and infection.",
author="Çimen, Tolga
and Doğan, Mehmet
and Akyel, Ahmet
and Yeter, Ekrem",
pages="62--63",
doi="10.5114/pwki.2015.49189",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pwki.2015.49189"
}