Kabukcu Hanife Karakaya, Sahin Nursel, Basarici Ibrahim, Erbasan Ozan
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
Department of Cardiology, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol. 2016 Mar;13(1):64-7. doi: 10.5114/kitp.2016.58971. Epub 2016 Mar 30.
Central venous catheterization as a frequent routine clinical procedure may have significant complications. Mechanical complications may occur during catheter placement, whereas thromboembolic and infectious complications can be seen during follow-up. Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) associated central venous catheterizations may result in early mechanical complications and thrombotic and infectious complications in the long term. This paper describes a patient diagnosed as mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy requiring long-term central venous catheterization for TPN implementation, who had an infected thrombus on the catheter tip resected by cardiac surgery.