Vascular perforation of umbilical venous catheter and awaiting it to be shallow.

The patient was a boy born at 23 weeks and 0 days of gestation weighed 401 g at birth. For treatment, an umbilical venous catheter was placed but the catheter perforated a blood vessel. We thought that prompt removal of the catheter would lead to massive bleeding, so we kept the catheter in place at the umbilicus, waited for weight gain, and removed it after confirming that the catheter tip had spontaneously become shallow and was in the umbilical vein. This procedure allowed us to handle the patient without major problems.