Endovascular Removal of Entrapped Central Venous Catheter Guide Wire

Abstract

I present the case of a 24-year-old female patient with a guidewire entrapment during central venous catheter insertion. At first, open surgery was considered to remove the entrapped guidewire; however, after vascular surgery consult, it was removed by a simple endovascular procedure described below in detail.

Keywords

• central venous catheters
• endovascular procedures
• guidewire entrapment