Use of the Superficialized Brachial Artery as Vascular Access for a Patient with Myasthenia Gravis with a Frequent Need for Plasmapheresis: A Case Report

Fumiya Kitano; Yuhji Marui; Kenzo Sakurai; Yugo Shibagaki; Tsutomu Sakurada; Shigeki Kojima

doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.2990-23

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Use of the Superficialized Brachial Artery as Vascular Access for a Patient with Myasthenia Gravis with a Frequent Need for Plasmapheresis: A Case Report

Fumiya Kitano, Yuhji Marui, Kenzo Sakurai, Yugo Shibagaki, Tsutomu Sakurada, Shigeki Kojima

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キーワード: blood purification therapy, myasthenia gravis, subcutaneously fixed superficial brachial artery, permanent vascular access

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論文ID: 2990-23

DOI https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2990-23

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The final version of this article is now available: Vol. 63 (2024), No. 16 pp. 2307-2310

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A 41-year-old woman diagnosed with seronegative myasthenia gravis struggled to maintain remission for a decade, facing crises every 3 months for several years. After repeated apheresis using a non-tunneled non-cuffed central venous dialysis catheter (NTNCC), complications such as catheter-related thrombus in the internal jugular veins and morbid obesity from steroids made the insertion of NTNCC increasingly difficult, leading to consideration of an alternative permanent vascular access (VA) approach. Thus, we created a subcutaneously superficialized brachial artery as the VA, which allowed the patient to undergo safe and uninterrupted apheresis therapy.

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