CASE REPORT article
Front. Surg.
Sec. Vascular Surgery
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2025.1610944
This article is part of the Research TopicVenous Disease: The Often Underestimated Burden on Patients and the Healthcare SystemView all 6 articles
Intraoperative detection of a rare superior vena cava variant in chest wall intravenous port implantation
Provisionally accepted
- The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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As a fully implantable central venous infusion device, venous access port (VAP) is widely used in long-term tumor chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition due to its long maintenance cycle and high patient comfort, and is usually divided into upper arm port and chest wall port. Chest wall port is usually implanted by internal jugular vein or subclavian vein access, and the seat is completely buried in the chest wall subcutaneously, which is a widely used TIVAP in recent years, and has the advantages of long retention time and low complication rate compared with PICC. Here, we report a case of incidental diagnosis of persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) during the implantation of chest wall IV port after rectal cancer surgery. Inpatients undergoing IV port implantation, congenital venous variations were found to commonly result in ectopic catheter ends. Postoperative catheter malfunction, thrombosis, and cardiac arrhythmias have all been associated with catheter tip location, and ac
Keywords: Writingoriginal draft, Writingreview & editing. Donghai Li: Funding acquisition, visualization, Writingreview & editing. Jing Du: Investigation, Writingreview & editing Infusion port, venous variant, Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC), chest wall port
Received: 28 Apr 2025; Accepted: 13 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Donghai Li, The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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