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<p>Maintenance of vascular access for hemodialysis remains a challenge for every doctor. Exhausted conventional vascular access is the cause for the placement of the central venous catheter in unconventional sites such as enlarged collateral vessels, hepatic veins, hemiazygos, azygos, renal veins, and the inferior vena cava. The percutaneous translumbar catheter for hemodialysis in the inferior vena cava was described over 20 years ago. In this article, we report on the procedure and complications arising from the percutaneous translumbar approach of a hemodialysis catheter. This was done for the first time in N. Macedonia. This approach is a potential option in adults and children when conventional approaches are limited.</p>
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Maintenance of vascular access for hemodialysis remains a challenge for every doctor. Exhausted conventional vascular access is the cause for the placement of the central venous catheter in unconventional sites such as enlarged collateral vessels, hepatic veins, hemiazygos, azygos, renal veins, and the inferior vena cava. The percutaneous translumbar catheter for hemodialysis in the inferior vena cava was described over 20 years ago. In this article, we report on the procedure and complications arising from the percutaneous translumbar approach of a hemodialysis catheter. This was done for the first time in N. Macedonia. This approach is a potential option in adults and children when conventional approaches are limited.

Using a Catheter for Hemodialysis Placed in the Inferior Vena Cava for the First Time in N. Macedonia - Translumbar Approach

University Hospital of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, SS Cyril and Methodius Skopje

City General Hospital 8th September- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, SS Cyril and Methodius Skopje

University Hospital of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, SS Cyril and Methodius Skopje

PRILOZI

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Maintenance of vascular access for hemodialysis remains a challenge for every doctor. Exhausted conventional vascular access is the cause for the placement of...

Using a Catheter for Hemodialysis Placed in the Inferior Vena Cava for the First Time in N. Macedonia - Translumbar Approach

Published Online: Mar 29, 2023

Page range: 127 - 133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/prilozi-2023-0014

Keywords
translumbar approach, vena cava inferior, hemodialysis, central venous catheters

© 2023 Nikola Gjorgjievski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Using a Catheter for Hemodialysis Placed in the Inferior Vena Cava for the First Time in N. Macedonia - Translumbar Approach

Published Online: Mar 29, 2023

Page range: 127 - 133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/prilozi-2023-0014

Keywordstranslumbar approach, vena cava inferior, hemodialysis, central venous catheters

© 2023 Nikola Gjorgjievski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
translumbar approach, vena cava inferior, hemodialysis, central venous catheters