Traumatic suprahepatic inferior vena cava injury: surgical management

Traumatic suprahepatic inferior vena cava injury: surgical management

: Suprahepatic inferior vena caval (IVC) injuries are rare but carry nearly a 100% mortality rate. The main problem with its surgical management is the technical difficulty in draining the IVC during cardiopulmonary bypass. In this report, an efficient method of IVC drainage for repair of the IVC on...

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Veröffentlicht in:Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pa.), 2007-07, Vol.2 (4), p.213-214
Hauptverfasser: Prabhu, Anil D, Karim, Rafeek A, Thazhkuni, Ismail E, Rajendran, Sunil, Thamaran, Ranjish A, Vellachamy, Kannan A, Sridharan, Varadaraj, Vettath, Murali P
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Zusammenfassung:: Suprahepatic inferior vena caval (IVC) injuries are rare but carry nearly a 100% mortality rate. The main problem with its surgical management is the technical difficulty in draining the IVC during cardiopulmonary bypass. In this report, an efficient method of IVC drainage for repair of the IVC on cardiopulmonary bypass is described.
ISSN:1556-9845
1559-0879
DOI:10.1097/IMI.0b013e318158ccde