%0 Journal Article
%T Terapia endovascular en el sindrome de vena cava superior: caso cl¨ªnico Endovascular treatment of superior vena cava syndrome: Report of one case
%A Camilo Boza W
%A Renato Mertens M
%A Francisco Vald¨¦s E
%A Albrecht Kramer Sch
%J Revista m¨¦dica de Chile
%D 2001
%I Sociedad M¨¦dica de Santiago
%X The treatment of superior vena cava syndrome is usually oriented to the underlying cause, that can be too slow in emergency cases. We report a 49 years old woman with a multiple myeloma that was admitted due to a superior vena cava syndrome caused by a central venous catheter used for chemotherapy for 20 weeks. She was successfully treated with thrombolysis, angioplasty and stent placement. The patient died 7 months later due to the underlying disease. Long term catheters are the responsible for 20 to 30% of superior vena cava syndromes. Endovascular treatment of the syndrome is successful in 60 to 100% of cases with a symptomatic relapse in 4 to 45% of patients. (Rev M¨¦d Chile 2001; 129: 421-6)
%K Catheterization
%K central venous
%K Catheterization
%K peripheral
%K Superior vena cava syndrome
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