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Brachial artery partial thrombosis

Posted By Martin Gorrochategui, Monday, April 30, 2018

Partial thrombosis of the brachial artery just proximal to the arterial anastomosis

afraid to pull out with fogarty placed on Eliquist instead 

surgeon notified

comments please

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David Namazy says...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2018
I am looking at a still shot (not sure if there is a video) but this does not look like thrombus to me. It looks like a dissection caused either by a wire or a fogarty. I have had large thrombus burden in the proximal artery in the past and have performed thrombectomy of the artery without a problem
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Rajeev Narayan says...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2018
Agreed - on the still shot looks like it could be dissection or disruption. In the past I have had thrombus in the brachial artery proximal to the arterial anastomosis- and I was able to remove it with a fogarty. In another case in the hospital I was worried about embolizing so I had another upstream sheath and used a balloon in the brachial artery distal to the arterial anastomosis and used an over the wire fogarty to pull thrombus from the proximal brachial artery back into the access. Both cases did well.
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Daniel V. Patel says...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2018
Was this a thrombectomy case?

IVUS or even 2-D Ultrasound can be really helpful in better evaluating these types of questionable lesions. Sometime we really cannot appreciate what we're looking at with fluoroscopy.

If the flow is strong and there are no symptoms, I'd be less concerned about it.

If it really is thrombus, PTA/ Fogarty may take care of it. Otherwise I would treat a dissection with a prolonged small caliber balloon PTA.

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Juan M. Quevedo says...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2018
Agree with not appearing like thrombus but more like vessel dissection. Was this an incidental finding or after instrumentation to put pic in context?
Ultrasound can help as well differentiate

But when dealing with pulling thrombus from this site have also experienced effective and safe results using an over the wire Fogarty. The thrombus tends to take the path of least resistance into the lower pressure venous system.
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Administration says...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2018
Movie file now attached in original post.
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Martin Gorrochategui says...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2018
This was angiogram due to difficulty in cannulation
Flow was brisk on Angiogram although there is inflow restriction
Patient had a thrombectomy 4 months ago in this newly placed graft
There was no outflow obstruction
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Marc Webb says...
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2018
dissection - probably from inappropriate manipulation/instumentation of the artery during previous thrombectomy procedures
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Andrew Sherwood says...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2018
This is almost certainly a dissection, I think any attempt at thrombectomy would be not be wise and could very well lead to further injury and thrombosis. It does not appear flow limiting and probably could be left alone.
standard duplex can give you a gray scale image of the lesion which will help clarify what it is and velocities can help determine if it is flow limiting. volumetric flows may help as well.
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