Computed tomography-guided central venous catheter placement in a patient with superior vena cava and inferior vena cava occlusion

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 1999 Jan;22(1):81-3. doi: 10.1007/s002709900336.

Abstract

An 18-year-old man with a gastrointestinal hypomotility syndrome required lifelong parenteral nutrition. Both the superior and inferior vena cava were occluded. Computed tomography guidance was used to place a long-term central venous catheter via a large tributary to the azygos vein.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Azygos Vein
  • Catheterization, Central Venous / methods*
  • Constriction, Pathologic / diagnostic imaging
  • Constriction, Pathologic / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Parenteral Nutrition / methods
  • Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / diagnostic imaging*
  • Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / surgery*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / diagnostic imaging*
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / surgery*