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Case Report

Major Right Atrial Thrombus Related to Central Venous Catheter Positioning

by
Sabine Blank
1,*,
Christoph Henzen
1,
Xavier Mueller
2 and
Thomas Syburra
2
1
Department of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland
2
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Cardiovasc. Med. 2020, 23(2), w02104; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2020.02104
Submission received: 20 January 2020 / Revised: 20 February 2020 / Accepted: 20 March 2020 / Published: 20 April 2020
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Abstract

We report the case of a 44-year-old woman who developed a thrombus of life-threatening size in the right atrium. The thrombus had formed around the catheter tip of her tunnelled central venous catheter, which was inserted for haemodialysis. Because of the size of the thrombus and the high risk of pulmonary embolism, surgical thrombectomy was performed. Because of an increasing incidence and usage period of tunnelled central venous catheters, the likelihood of catheter-related complications rises. Contributing factors need to be identified and reduced, especially in long-term catheter-dependent patients. One of those risk factors might be the exact position of the catheter tip.
Keywords: thrombus; right atrium; central venous catheter; echocardiography; haemodialysis thrombus; right atrium; central venous catheter; echocardiography; haemodialysis

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Blank, S.; Henzen, C.; Mueller, X.; Syburra, T. Major Right Atrial Thrombus Related to Central Venous Catheter Positioning. Cardiovasc. Med. 2020, 23, w02104. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2020.02104

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Blank S, Henzen C, Mueller X, Syburra T. Major Right Atrial Thrombus Related to Central Venous Catheter Positioning. Cardiovascular Medicine. 2020; 23(2):w02104. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2020.02104

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Blank, Sabine, Christoph Henzen, Xavier Mueller, and Thomas Syburra. 2020. "Major Right Atrial Thrombus Related to Central Venous Catheter Positioning" Cardiovascular Medicine 23, no. 2: w02104. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2020.02104

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Blank, S., Henzen, C., Mueller, X., & Syburra, T. (2020). Major Right Atrial Thrombus Related to Central Venous Catheter Positioning. Cardiovascular Medicine, 23(2), w02104. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2020.02104

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