Preoperative diagnosis: port-a-cath malfunction with separation of catheter from port; physician removed port and catheter that was broken at the point the catheter and port attach.Physician/surgeon wants the port to be examined to find out if it was defective.Port is approximately three years old and was placed at another hospital three years ago.Postoperative diagnosis: port-a-cath malfunction with separation of catheter from port; port had been successful until two days ago when it could not be used by the home health nurse.The patient was brought to the emergency room; a peripheral iv was started and he was given his immunoglobulin without difficulty.Subsequently, he presented to surgeon's clinic where review of x-ray demonstrated that the catheter was actually no longer attached to the port explaining the malfunction.
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