TY - JOUR T1 - Abdominal aortic perforation by an umbilical arterial catheter JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-317869 SP - fetalneonatal-2019-317869 AU - Liron Borenstein-Levin AU - Ori Hochwald AU - Shlomit Ben David AU - Amir Kugelman Y1 - 2019/08/29 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2019/08/29/archdischild-2019-317869.abstract N2 - A 275-week, 950 g infant was born by caesarean section. On admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the infant was placed on ventilatory support, and umbilical catheters were inserted. Abdominal X-ray showed the 3.5F arterial catheter at the level of first lumbar vertebrae (figure 1A). The catheter was pulled out by 2 cm to reach an adequate low position. … ER -