Vein Specialists Share Hard Lessons From Clinical Mistakes

Billed as the Mistakes Issue, this July 2021 Vein Specialist collects anonymous case reports of venous procedures that went wrong, from a balloon trapped in the IVC during iliocaval reconstruction to two IVC filter retrievals ending in open surgery and nephrectomy. Other contributors describe rare sclerotherapy complications including Takotsubo syndrome and paradoxical embolism, a DVT following sclerotherapy that led to a malpractice claim, a post-ablation wound infection, and a severe case of heparin induced thrombocytopenia after iliocaval thrombectomy and stenting.