Case Report: Endovascular Approach for Iatrogenic Artery Damage in Covid-19 Pandemic Era

Since February, the Italian sanitary system and his healthcare workers are facing COVID-19 pandemic; however, some Operative Units (such as Interventional Radiology and Vascular Surgery) appear to have higher contagion risk, because of the closer contact, needed by their specialty, with the patient and for the invasive operations needed for patient’s treatment. This is more and more making mandatory the needing to develop and use new guidelines to decrease contagion risk. In this case report we describe our experience in a case of intervention for the treatment of an active bleeding in a COVID-19 positive patient.