Basilic vein thrombosis is a type of superficial venous thrombosis (SVT) in which a blood clot forms in the basilic vein in the arm. In many cases, SVT is harmless and will resolve without treatment.

During the 9-year study period from November 1992 to October 2001, 1,601 initial hemodialysis accesses were placed, consisting of 741 prosthetic grafts (46.3%), 690 simple AVF (43.1%), and 170 ...

Background: Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) in children and adolescents are being used with increasing frequency. We sought to determine the incidence and characterize risk factors of ...

However, a thrombus (d) was also possible, given the presence of the PICC in the right atrium, the history of basilic vein thrombosis and the undetectable heparin levels. Infective endocarditis (c) ...

In this report, the rates of primary and primary assisted patencies are lower than the rates reported throughout the literature. [5,6,7,15,16,17,18,19,20] This is related, in part, to the ...