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Percutaneous treatment of post catheterization massive retroperitoneal hemorrhage
1Department of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|May 1, 1993
Abstract:
We describe a patient on anticoagulant therapy with massive retroperitoneal and intraperitoneal bleeding complicating femoral catheterization. Balloon tamponade of the actively bleeding femoral artery was effective in sealing off the leakage after failed surgical exploration.