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Successful treatment of complete traumatic transection of the suprahepatic inferior vena cava with veno-venous and cardiopulmonary bypass with hypothermic circulatory arrest ? |
Paulo N. Martins a , # , Julianna E. Buchwald a , # , Babak Movahedi a , Ulises Torres b , Timothy Emhoff b , Jennifer Walker c , Michael G. DeBusk b , Adel Bozorgzadeh a , ∗ |
a Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
b Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
c Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
? This case was presented during the American College of Surgeons Meeting 2017 in the exceptional case presentation session.
∗ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: Adel.Bozorgzadeh@umassmemorial.org (A. Bozorgzadeh).
# Contributed equally. |
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Abstract Complete traumatic transection of the suprahepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) has almost invariably a fatal outcome. There are very few cases in the literature of patients that survived this type of injury. Here we presented a case that was approached multidisciplinary (trauma surgeon, liver transplant surgeon, perfusionist, anesthesiologist, and cardiac surgeon) with a successful outcome including early recovery of all body functions and quality of life. We also reviewed the literature of cases of survival following blunt incomplete and complete IVC transection including those treated with cardiopulmonary bypass.
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