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- Title
Iatrogenic Inferior Vena Cava Resection Requiring Reconstruction.
- Authors
Alslaim, Hossam; Chung, Jane; Kruse, Edward; Shukla, Mrinal; Agarwal, Gautam
- Abstract
This is a report of an iatrogenic inferior vena cava (IVC) segmental resection and reconstruction utilizing bovine pericardium. A 48-year-old female patient presented for a planned right nephrectomy by the urology service secondary to xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis. This was complicated by inadvertent resection of an 8 cm segment of the infrarenal IVC. Postoperatively, the patient did not tolerate IVC ligation due to severe lower extremity edema. She then underwent reconstruction with a bovine pericardium conduit as an interposition graft. The post-operative course was complicated by pulmonary embolism requiring percutaneous intervention. This report addresses the utility of bovine pericardium for IVC reconstruction in an infected field.
- Subjects
INFERIOR vena cava surgery; NEPHRECTOMY; PYELONEPHRITIS; PERICARDIUM; PLASTIC surgery; IATROGENIC diseases; VEIN surgery; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.
- Publication
Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, 2021, Vol 55, Issue 8, p864
- ISSN
1538-5744
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/15385744211012904