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6800043

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-4-12
pubmed:abstractText
During a five year period at UCLA Hospital, 118 Silastic, Broviac, central venous hyperalimentation catheters were inserted into 94 infants who were less than one year of age. The indications for total parenteral nutrition were malabsorption syndrome in 26, short bowel syndrome in 24, diarrhea in 15, nutritional support following operation in 11 and miscellaneous in 18. One hundren and two catheters were placed into the vena cava by way of the saphenous vein at the groin, and 16 were inserted through the external or internal jugular veins. The duration of catheter use varied from six to 925 days, a mean of 104 days. In six infants, obstruction of the vena cava developed, five in the inferior vena cava and one in the superior vena cava. Swelling of the extremity was minimal, and the thrombosis was insidious in each patient. None of the patients had pulmonary emboli. Although two of the six patients eventually died, in neither was thrombosis of the cava believed to be related. Thrombosis of the vena cava is a frequent sequela of long term central venous hyperalimentation in infants, but it is rarely fatal and produces remarkably few serious complications.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0039-6087
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
154
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
189-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Occlusion of the vena cava in infants receiving central venous hyperalimentation.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article