Traumatic suprahepatic inferior vena cava injury: surgical management

Anil D Prabhu; Rafeek A Karim; Ismail E Thazhkuni; Sunil Rajendran; Ranjish A Thamaran; Kannan A Vellachamy; Varadaraj Sridharan; Murali P Vettath

doi:10.1097/IMI.0b013e318158ccde

Traumatic suprahepatic inferior vena cava injury: surgical management

Innovations (Phila). 2007 Jul;2(4):213-4. doi: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e318158ccde.

Authors

Anil D Prabhu¹, Rafeek A Karim, Ismail E Thazhkuni, Sunil Rajendran, Ranjish A Thamaran, Kannan A Vellachamy, Varadaraj Sridharan, Murali P Vettath

Affiliation

¹ From the MIMS Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences, Calicut, India.

PMID: 22437064
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e318158ccde

Abstract

: Suprahepatic inferior vena caval (IVC) injuries are rare but carry nearly a 100% mortality rate. The main problem with its surgical management is the technical difficulty in draining the IVC during cardiopulmonary bypass. In this report, an efficient method of IVC drainage for repair of the IVC on cardiopulmonary bypass is described.