title: Catheter-associated thrombosis in children: single-institution experience and review of pediatric venous thromboembolic disease.
abstract: Central venous catheters and peripherally inserted central catheters are widely used in children with serious chronic diseases. In this report, data about catheters and venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) in children will be reviewed, and the experience of a single academic children's hospital will be described. Two separate data sets that examine overlapping subpopulations will be reported: (1) the proportion of pediatric patients with catheters who develop VTE and (2) the proportion of patients referred to pediatric hematology for VTE who have catheters. The limitations of current pilot data and the authors' approach to better define this problem and its prevention are discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Andrew B. Smitherman, MD, is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Dr Smitherman is also a medicalpediatric hospitalist and a pediatric hematology-oncology fellow at UNC. Brent W. Weston, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr Weston has been an attending pediatric hematologist at UNC for more than 20 years.
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Smitherman
authors.forename: Brent W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Weston
mesh_terms: D062905:Central Venous Catheters / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology*