Peripheral venous catheter fracture with embolism into the pulmonary artery

Antiphospholipid syndrome with pulmonary artery embolism and multiple venous thromboses.

We report a case of a 21-year-old university student with underlying lupus nephritis who presented with recurrent symptoms of fever, haemoptysis, and pleuritic chest pain. CT pulmonary angiogram confirmed pulmonary embolism in the right subsegmental pulmonary arteries. One week later, she developed left renal vein and left common iliac vein thromboses, with new emboli in the left subsegmental p...

Central venous catheter fracture.

665 The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association August 2014 | Vol 114 | No. 8 An 18-year-old woman presented with a 1-day history of edema and erythema associated with a port central venous access device of the anterior left chest wall. The patient reported difficulty with catheter flushing for 2 days. Medical history included severe gastroparesis requiring placement of the catheter 2 m...

Venous Fragment Embolism to the Pulmonary Artery: A Rare Occurrence

Despite the large number of gunshot wounds treated in civilian and military practice, embolization of missiles to the pulmonary artery is relatively uncommon. In a review of 7,500 medical reports from casualties from the Vietnam Vascular Registry, only 22 patients with known vascular trauma had missile emboli (0.3%), and of those, only 4 (.0005%) were to the pulmonary artery. Causative agents o...

Incidence of Phlebitis Associated With Peripheral Venous Catheter of Patients With COVID-19

The pulmonary artery catheter.

Clinical Medicine Vol 2 No 2 March/April 2002 101 The flow-directed pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) has been in clinical use since its introduction by Swan and colleagues in 19701. During that time it has become widely used in critical care units throughout the world and is now the most commonly utilised form of flow monitoring. The haemodynamic data obtained with a PAC are used to monitor and ...