Inferior vena cava injury after catheterization: report of a case.

Hepatogastroenterology

Department of Surgery II, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807, Japan.

Published: October 2001

We present a patient with retroperitoneal hematoma suspicious of inferior vena cava injury after catheterization for hemodialysis. Emergency computed tomography revealed extensive retroperitoneal hematoma and inferior vena cava angiography revealed extravasation. Emergent laparotomy was performed and repaired the perforation of inferior vena cava. His postoperative courses were uneventful and he remains well after the operation.

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