Esophageal perforation caused by an indwelling central venous catheter

详细信息	查看全文 | 推荐本文 |

• 作者：Nigel Lum Hee ; Gerard Farfan
• 关键词：Renal dialysis ; Esophageal perforation ; Central venous catheterization
• 刊名：European Journal of Internal Medicine
• 出版年：2008
• 期刊代码：91_09536205
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：July 2008
• 卷：19
• 期：5
• 页码：362-363
• 文件大小：178 K

摘要

A 59 year old lady had just completed renal dialysis via a central venous catheter when she developed severe chest pain. She subsequently has severe haematemesis and emergency endoscopy showed a lesion in her esophagus consistent with the tip of her venous catheter, and extensive bleeding from the lesion. A chest X-ray was done which showed that her venous dialysis catheter tip position appeared to correspond with the site of the esophageal lesion. She received blood transfusion and was referred urgently to cardiothoracic surgery.