Catheter migration of a Port-a-cath system.

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol

Department of Radiology, Hôpital Civil de Charleroi, Belgium.

Published: March 1997

A patient with axillary venous thrombosis caused by lymph node compression and the presence of a displaced catheter in the vascular lumen is presented. In this case, percutaneous interventional radiological procedures (balloon angioplasty and snare loop method) in conjunction with medical treatment were effective in limiting the post-thrombotic syndrome and restoring the proper positioning of the catheter, thereby saving the central venous access.

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