Dialysis - Transplantation

Kidney International (1997) 52, 1406–1411; doi:10.1038/ki.1997.468

Percutaneous recanalization of occlusion of central and proximal veins in chronic hemodialysis: Technical Note

Philippe Morinière1, Romualdine Rodary-Vautier1, Virginie Fillioux-Morfaux1, Bruno Dehouck1, Najeh El Esper1, Alexandre Remond1 and Albert Fournier1

1Nephrology, Haemodialysis Unit, and Radiology Unit, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France

Correspondence: Dr Ph Moriniere, CHU Amiens, Groupe Hospitalier Sud, Service d'Hémodialyse, Avenue René Laënnec, Salouel, 80054 Amiens Cedex 1, France.

Received 24 March 1997; Revised 16 June 1997; Accepted 16 June 1997.

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Abstract

Percutaneous recanalization of occlusion of central and proximal veins in chronic hemodialysis. Occlusion of the central and proximal veins in chronic hemodialysis patients results in considerable edema of the arm of the vascular access that is unable to drain normally. This is a formidable problem because it is very often necessary to close the vascular access, which is sometimes the last available one. To avoid resorting to this disastrous solution, recanalization of the occluded vein by percutaneous recanalization followed by endoluminal angioplasty was successfully performed in five patients (4 innominate veins and one axillary vein). Immediate failure occurred in a sixth patient, and delayed failure after two months of patency (innominate vein) in another patient for whom there had been no systematic stent placement. Recanalization was still patent in four other patients at 3, 6, 12 and 26 months. These results are an encouragement to attempt percutaneous recanalization by angioplasty of occluded central veins because, when successful, this technique makes it possible to preserve the vascular access and to avoid onerous surgery. We believe that this technique should therefore become better known.

Keywords:

recanalization of occlusion, hemodialysis, occlusion, edema, vascular access

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