Ultrasound-guided Thrombin Injection for the Treatment of Iatrogenic Pseudoaneurysm of the Right Brachial Artery
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Iatrogenic vascular injury is an abnormal state that occurs in patients as a result of inadvertent or erroneous treatment by physicians or surgeons. Pseudoaneurysms need to be distinguished from true aneurysms. Pseudoaneurysm is a dilatation of an artery with actual
disruption of one or more layers of its wall, rather than with expansion of wall layers. Recently, several reports have suggested that
ultrasound-guided thrombin injection is a safe, effective, and rapid therapy for the treatment of pseudoaneurysm and without being
associated with the limitations of ultrasound-guided manual compression.We report a case of a 38-year-old patient who had brachial
artery pseudoaneurysm and was successfully managed with ultrasound-guided thrombin injection.
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