Laila Aboulnasr MD; Tarek Ashour MD; Sherif Zamer MD
Laila Aboulnasr MD; Tarek Ashour MD; Sherif Zamer MD
Usama Lotfi (MD, MRCS) , Hisham Mostafa (MD), Maher Abdelmonem (MD), Ahmed Reyad (MD)
Magdy Haggag, Usama Lotfi, Randa Kaddah
Mohamed El-Maadawy, MD
Mohamed El-Maadawy, MD.
Ahmed M. Hussein MD., Mohamed Y. Ibrahim MD., Mohamed L. Mohamed M.Sc.
Ahmed El-Marakby, Ahmed Farghaly, Ahmed Gamal Eldin Fouad
Ashraf Abolfotooh Khalil, Amr Ibrahim Fouad, Mohamed Hazem, Ahmed F. Aborady, Hatem Elsahar, Ahmed Ragab Morsi
Mahmoud Saad Farahat MD
Fady Magdy Yacoub, Khaled Sadek, Ahmed Adel Nawar
Maged Rihan and Mohamed M.Raslan
Usama Shaker Mohamed, Mohamed Diaa Sarhan, Amr Mohsen, Ahmed Farag, Mohamed Youssef, Fahim Elbassiony
Exploiting Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty during the Insertion of Central Venous Catheter for Hemodialysis in Difficult Cases
Objective: is to present our experience in making benefit of endovascular angioplasty techniques to insert
chronic venous catheter (CVC) in hemodialysis patients who suffer obstruction or stenosis of central veins.
Patient and methods: Eight patients on regular hemodialysis for long time and have consumed
arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) and graft (AVG) were included. All patients strived to have an adequate
access for their hemodialysis that either was not possible due to their co-morbidities or obstructed central
veins. The earlier made any surgical intervention risky and the latter prevented insertion of CVC. We could
recanalize the central veins by balloon angioplasty and be able to insert CVC down to the right atrium in
five patients. Two patients have had their CVC inserted through the common femoral vein (CFV) after
being dilated by balloon. The remaining patient had been tried in vain crossing the obstruction in both
innominate vein and superior vena cava. Consequently, a CVC was inserted into the left CFV. Conclusion:
insertion of CVC in patient who consumed all available AVF & AVG particularly in whom repeated
insertion and exchange of CVC were done, can be challenging owing to limitation of available veins. In
such situation, catheter insertion should be done with all facilities available to perform angioplasty
whenever required.
Key words: central veins, venous obstruction, balloon angioplasty, endovascular, hemodialysis access,
chronic venous catheter.