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Images in cardiology
Dislodged occluder trapped in the left ventricle
  1. Po-Yuan Shih1,
  2. Ya-Jung Cheng2,
  3. Chih-Peng Lin2
  1. 1Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan
  2. 2Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Chih-Peng Lin, Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, No 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan; cplin0123{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2011.226316

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    • This work was performed at the National Taiwan University Hospital.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.