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Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis after radial artery harvesting
Mitsumasa Hata1, Alexander Rosalion, Siven Seevanayagam
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
A 47-year-old diabetic man with unstable angina underwent coronary bypass surgery using bilateral radial arteries and left internal thoracic artery. After surgery, the patient suffered from severe right arm pain and swelling without any bleeding. The postoperative immediate digital subtraction angiogram detected thrombotic occlusion of the right axillary vein. We report here a rare case of deep vein thombosis related to radial artery harvesting.