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Digital infarction in a hemodialysis patient due to embolism from a thrombosed brachial arteriovenous fistula
Author(s) -
YJ Anupama
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hemodialysis international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.658
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1542-4758
pISSN - 1492-7535
DOI - 10.1111/hdi.12256
Subject(s) - medicine , hemodialysis , brachial artery , thrombosis , arteriovenous fistula , embolism , complication , infarction , embolization , ischemia , surgery , cardiology , occlusion , fistula , radiology , myocardial infarction , blood pressure
Acute onset of digital ischemia and infarction is an unusual complication in patients undergoing hemodialysis. This is a report of a patient on regular hemodialysis who presented with acute distal extremity ischemia, progressing to digital infarction and on evaluation was found to have thrombosis of brachial arteriovenous fistula with embolization to the distal arteries causing digital artery occlusion.