Persistent hiccups - A rare complication of suprahepatic inferior vena cava stenting.

Persistent hiccups has not been reported previously with suprahepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) stenting. Persistent hiccups after palliative oesophageal stenting has been reported. We present a case of a 41-year-old male patient diagnosed with primary Budd-Chiari syndrome who underwent IVC stenting for suprahepatic IVC stenosis.

External iliac artery thrombosis: an unusual complication of femoral venous catheterisation in a neonate.

We report a neonate who developed external iliac artery thrombosis after insertion of femoral venous catheter, without an apparent arterial puncture during the procedure. The baby developed acute limb ischaemia. As there was no improvement despite heparin infusion for 24 hours, thrombectomy was done.

Composite sequential bypass using profunda vein hitchhike.

Patients with long-segment occlusions of the iliac and femoral arteries often undergo sequential bypass procedures. There exists a subgroup of patients who have no suitable vessels in the groin. We report our experience with a new technique of using the profunda vein as a hitchhike point in our series of seven patients (eight limbs) with critical ischemia and occlusion at the iliac or aortic level with reformation of infrageniculate arteries and no reformation in the groin.