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Open Journal of Cardiology & Heart Diseases

Complete Atrioventricular Block During the Placement of a Central Jugular Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis at The University Clinical Hospital of Santiago De Compostela, Spain

Submission: July 09, 2018; Published: July 19, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/OJCHD.2018.02.000537

ISSN: 2578-0204
Volume2 Issue3

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The central venous access is one of the most common procedures in interventional nephrology [1-3]. One of the known complications of this procedure is the right branch lesion of the His bundle that leads to temporary or permanent blockage. This may go clinically unnoticed in some patients, but in others, especially with previous blockage of the left branch, it might lead to a complete atrioventricular block (AVB), placing the patient at risk [4,5]. We present a case of a 70-year-old patient with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage G5A3 who, after an attempt of placing a right jugular tunneled catheter for hemodialysis, developed a complete atrioventricular block (AVB).

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