Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux
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Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss · Jun 2004
Case Reports[Right atrial thrombus--a complication of central venous catheters].
We describe the development, in three days, of a pediculate mass hanging on the right atrial lateral wall in a 39-year-old woman with a subclavian venous catheterization. She was a current smoker and alcoholic but without drug addict. ⋯ The prevention of right atrial thrombus caused by a central venous catheter depends on the position of the central venous catheter tip, either in the superior vena cava or at the superior vena cava-right atrium junction. A more distal position is a frequent source of thrombotic and embolic complications.