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Case Report

Volume 5, Number 12, December 2014, pages 636-638

Right Ventricle Foreign Body: A Case of a Migrating Iliac Stent Entrapped in the Tricuspid Valve

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1. Short-axis view (A) and apical four view (B) images of the heart by transthoracic echocardiography, showing migrated iliac vein stent in the right ventricle enmeshed in the tricuspid valve, causing moderate tricuspid regurgitation by color Doppler (C).
Figure 2.
Figure 2. Venography of the common and left iliac veins demonstrating protrusion of one left iliac stent into the IVC.