If you hurt veins, they may shed blood

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An elderly male patient with history of CABG surgery 2 months ago presented with bleeding from sternal wound. Coronary angiogram showed the following, and he was treated percutaneously.

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If you hurt veins, they may shed blood

If you hurt veins, they may shed blood

Authors

KIANI Sadaf Shabbir (1), SHIRAM Syed Ali (1), SAMORE Naseer Ahmed (1), KHAN Muhammad Nadir (1)
  1. Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology & National Institute of Heart Diseases (AFIC-NIHD), Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN

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