Despite some complications, the ventriculoauriculostomy is, at the moment, the best surgical procedure to be used in patients with hydrocephalus. A free intracardiac foreign body is an unusual complication of this technique, found in only three cases of the medical literature. All those patients were operated upon and the foreign body removed. A new case is presented in which the jugular cateter remains for 22 monthes in the right heart, because the family refused cardiotomy. The child has no trouble attributable to the foreign body.