Percutaneous retrieval of patient-cut-of central venous catheter: Fishing with a pigtail and a goose-neck

摘要

A 57-year-old patient was admitted for percutaneous retrieval of a fragment of a central venous catheter. The patient was originally treated in an intensive care unit for acute alcoholic pancreatitis with septic shock and had a central venous line placed into the right subclavian vein. In the course of delirium tremens, the patient cut off a piece of a catheter, while the remaining part migrated into the vascular system.