28 Endovascular Today junE 2012 P roximal subclavian artery occlusive disease is a fairly common, usually asymptomatic, phenomenon.1 When patients become symptomatic, they can present with subclavian steal syndrome, or after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), coronary subclavian steal syndrome. Both syndromes share similar pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria, and management. The presentat...

A patient is described who developed a right pneumothorax and a left hydrothorax following percutaneous subclavian vein cannulation. The prevention, diagnosis and treatment of this complication are discussed.

Correspondence To the Editor: A 40‑year‑old male working as a manual labor with a history of smoking presented with a swelling in the neck and right upper extremity with the breathlessness since 5 days. The swelling in the neck region was acute in onset, pain associated with the generalized swelling in a right upper extremity. Breathlessness was acute in onset but was not associated with chest ...

Serious complications of central venous access occur in 0.4–9.9% of patients undergoing attempted central venepuncture [1]. Potential complications include failure to locate or cannulate the vein, puncture of the subclavian artery, misplacement of the catheter, pneumothorax, mediastinal haematoma, haemothorax and injury to adjacent nerves [2]. Pseudoaneurysm formaFig. 1. Bleeding bullous lesion...

PURPOSE To report the use of a new self-expanding endograft for percutaneous treatment of iatrogenic subclavian artery perforations. CASE REPORTS The subclavian artery of 2 patients was inadvertently cannulated during percutaneous attempts to implant a permanent pacemaker in one and catheterize the subclavian vein in the other. Because both patients had serious comorbidities, endovascular rep...