Open AccessA Central Venous Catheter Line Misadventure
Author(s) -
Edwin Stephen,
Maitha Al Asmi,
Thekra Al Hadhrami,
Mohsin Al Riyami,
Mohammed Al Badri,
Hanan Al Mawaali,
Khalifa Al Wahaibi
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
sultan qaboos university medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2075-0528
pISSN - 2075-051X
DOI - 10.18295/squmj.1.2022.010
Subject(s) - medicine , central venous catheter , catheter , radiology
We report a 32-year-old female patient who was referred to a tertiary care hospital in Muscat, Oman, in 2021 with an iatrogenic arteriovenous fistula (AVF) that presented as a neck swelling which developed few weeks after an attempt of central venous catheterization through the right internal jugular vein (IJV). The fistula was corrected surgically at our institute with a successful outcome. AVF is an abnormal communication between an artery and vein which can occur as a congenital anomaly, after trauma or iatrogenic following central venous catheter (CVC) or endovenous thermal ablation.
Keywords: Arteriovenous fistula, Iatrogenic, central venous catheter, critically ill, ICU