Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 235-236, May 2010

Acute transient phlebitis during eptifibatide intravenous injection: Case report

  • Emile Hay, MD

      Affiliations

    • Quality Control and Risk Management Unit
    • ,
  • Yossef Blaer, RN, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Barzilai Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ashkelon, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Yossef Blaer, RN, MSc, Barzilai Medical Center, Hahistadrout St. 2, Ashkelon 78278, Israel.
    • ,
  • Vladimir Shlyakhover, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Barzilai Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ashkelon, Israel
    • ,
  • Amos Katz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Barzilai Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ashkelon, Israel
    • ,
  • Jamal Jafari, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Barzilai Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ashkelon, Israel

published online 05 October 2009.

We present a 56-year-old man who developed acute transient phlebitis of the right cephalic vein during an intravenous injection of eptifibatide (Integrilin, Schering Plough, Kenilworth, NJ). The eptifibatide injections were discontinued, and signs of phlebitis disappeared within minutes. The patient's course was uneventful, and he was discharged home after 8 days. As far as we know, this is the first report of acute transient phlebitis during intravenous eptifibatide injections in the English-language medical literature.

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PII: S0147-9563(09)00181-2

doi:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.07.003

Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 235-236, May 2010

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