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A chest radiograph showing the embolized fractured fragment of the haemodialysis catheter in a segmental branch of the left pulmonary artery (black arrow).
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Hemo-Cath  (MedCOMP , Harleysville, Pa., USA), inserted in his right internal jugular vein 3 months previously. He was asymptomatic when a routine chest X-ray, performed prior to a planned living donor kidney transplant, revealed embolization of a fractured catheter tip into a branch of the left pulmonary artery (fig. 1).
Removal of the embolized fragment of the haemodialysis catheter from a segmental branch of the left pulmonary artery via an endovascular approach using a loop snare device.
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Interventional radiology replaced the catheter and removed the embolized fragment from a segmental branch of the left pulmonary artery using an image-guided endovascular approach with a loop snare device (fig. 2), via right femoral access.