Comments

Patients (with aorto-pulmonary or venous collateral channels, coronary arterial fistulas or hepatic hemangioendotheliomas) with implanted tungsten coils used to occluded vessels

References

1. Peuster M, Fink C, von Schnakenburg C, Hausdorf G: Dissolution of tungsten coils does not produce systemic toxicity, but leads to elevated levels of tungsten in the serum and recanalization of the previously occluded vessel. Cardiol Young. 2002 May;12(3):229-35. [PubMed:12365168 ]