Placement of a catheter through the struts of a previously placed stent for maintenance hemodialysis: a case report.
Venous accesses for hemodialysis are beset with thrombosis and stenosis, often resulting in loss of central venous access. We report a case in which an alternate access was created by placement of hemodialysis catheter into the central vasculature by penetrating a stent previously placed in the stenosed right brachio-cephalic vein. To our knowledge, this is the first such report.
Joseph
Rajesh
R
Department of Nephrology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Keshava
Shyamkumar N
SN
Narayanam
R S Surendrababu
RS
John
George T
GT
D000328:Adult; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015607:Stents