Endovascular Removal of Entrapped Central Venous Catheter Guide Wire

Pouya Tayebi

doi:10.5758/vsi.2020.36.1.45

Endovascular Removal of Entrapped Central Venous Catheter Guide Wire

Vasc Specialist Int. 2020 Mar 31;36(1):45-48. doi: 10.5758/vsi.2020.36.1.45.

Author

Pouya Tayebi¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Rouhani Hospital, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.

Abstract

I present the case of a 24-year-old female patient with a guidewire entrapment during central venous catheter insertion. At first, open surgery was considered to remove the entrapped guidewire; however, after vascular surgery consult, it was removed by a simple endovascular procedure described below in detail.

Keywords: Central venous catheters; Endovascular procedures; Guidewire entrapment.