[Experience with 150 subcutaneous venous reservoirs for venous access and infusion for the treatment of adult patients with oncologic and hematologic disorders and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome].

Background: In the present study the year experience of a multidisciplinary team (oncologic, unit for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and surgery) with the use of a new method of central intravenous administration of medication such as that of subcutaneous venous reservoirs (SVR) is reviewed.

Methods: The subcutaneous injection capsules were implanted as a venous access in 150 surgical procedures in 146 patients from October 1985 to April 1991 with a total follow up of 29.190 days and a mean length of 251 days for SVR.

[Deep venous thrombosis of the upper limb. A prospective study of the central venous catheter as an etiologic factor and clinical and subclinical incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism].

The thrombogenicity presented in different types of endovenous catheters and their anomalies are the cause of the development of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) in some patients, secondary to deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the upper limbs. Presentation of a study made on the incidence of PTE in patients with prior history of DVT of the upper limbs. Of the 30 cases of DVT of the upper limbs studied, 20 were directly attributed to catheters.