Endovascular technique using a snare and suture for retrieving a migrated peripherally inserted central catheter in the left pulmonary artery

Figure 1 Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showing the proximal end of the catheter lodged in the wall of the left pulmonary artery trunk (A and B); the distal catheter end was in the small branch of left pulmonary artery (C). The broken catheter is indicated by arrows.

Figure 2 Snare with a suture technique and the retrieved catheter. A: A snare with a suture was curved downward by pulling the string; B: The retrieved catheter.

Figure 3 Image of the procedure. The second attempt using the snare with a suture technique was successful to grasp of the body of broken catheter. The broken catheter is indicated by an arrow.