Venous accesses for hemodialysis are beset with thrombosis and stenosis, often resulting in loss of central venous access. We report a case in which an alternate access was created by placement of hemodialysis catheter into the central vasculature by penetrating a stent previously placed in the stenosed right brachio-cephalic vein. To our knowledge, this is the first such report.

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We present the first case of a posttraumatic pseudoaneurysm of the axillary artery successfully treated with a stentgraft.A 89-year-old woman with a conservatively treated subcapital humeral fracture developed a pseudoaneurysm of the left axillary artery which was percutaneously successfully treated with a stentgraft. Endovascular repair of a traumatic axillary artery pseudoaneurysm should be considered especially in unfit patients.