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01-05-2007 | Case Report

Bilhemia: a fatal complication following percutaneous placement of a transhepatic inferior vena cava catheter in a child

Authors: Sergio Sierre, Jose Lipsich, Horacio Questa

Published in: Pediatric Radiology | Issue 5/2007

Abstract

A transhepatic central venous catheter was implanted in a 2-year-old child with a history of multiple venous access procedures and superior and inferior vena cava thrombosis. After 2 weeks, inadvertent dislodgement of the catheter was complicated by a biloma. The biloma was percutaneously drained, but a biliary-venous fistula led to a rapidly progressive and fatal bilhemia. We report this case as an infrequent complication of transhepatic catheterization.

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Title: Bilhemia: a fatal complication following percutaneous placement of a transhepatic inferior vena cava catheter in a child
Authors: Sergio Sierre
Jose Lipsich
Horacio Questa
Publication date: 01-05-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Pediatric Radiology / Issue 5/2007
Print ISSN: 0301-0449
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1998
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-007-0432-2

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