A 40-year-old man with a chronic kidney disease on dialysis and with a
history of several previous tunneled central venous catheters placements
with recurrent infections. The CT showed a fistula between the superior
vena cava and the right pulmonary artery. We occluded the fistula
applying an Amplatzer® Vascular Plug II.
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