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Injury of the Artery Epigastrica Low after Channeling of Vascular Accesses

Isabel López-Garcia^*, Ana Escoresca-Ortega and Isabel Gutiérrez-Jarrín

Intensive Care Medicine Department, Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Spain

*Corresponding Author:

Isabel López-Garcia
Intensive Care Medicine Department
Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio
Calle Manuel Sirout s/n, Sevilla-41001, Spain
Tel: +34 609346231
E-mail: isabellopez_80@hotmail.com

Received Date: May 16, 2016; Accepted Date: May 18, 2016; Published Date: May 23, 2016

Citation: López-Garcia et al (2016) Injury of the Artery Epigastrica Low after Channeling of Vascular Accesses 5:223. doi:10.4172/2167-7964.1000223

Copyright: © 2016 López-Garcia I, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Channelling femoral vascular access (arterial and venous) is a common technique in our daily practice. These techniques are not without complications, which may go unnoticed initially and as in the case presented manifests with symptoms of hypovolemic shock in previously stable patient. One of these complications is injury to the inferior epigastric artery is rare but must be suspected in a patient with a history of femoral vascular access channel that begins with symptoms of hypovolemia. It is crucial to perform appropriate diagnostic techniques (CT angiography and arteriography) and urgent treatment (therapeutic arteriography) as its diagnosis and treatment may be critical in the patient's prognosis.

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