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Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Screening for Proximal Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis
Published on: February 10, 2023
[Both-sided iliac vein thrombosis in a 18-year old patient with lumbago]
P Nowak1, L Dietze, A Schlichter
1Abteilung für Innere Medizin, St. Lukas Klinik GmbH, Schwanenstrasse 132, 42697 Solingen. dr.nowak@netcologne.de
Abstract:
A MRI of the lumbal spine was performed on a patient with lumbago. Besides the fact of no evidence for a myelopathy caused by a herniated disc a both-sided iliac vein thrombosis could be seen. In further examination the coincidence of a congenital absence of vena cava inferior with distinctive collateral vessel systems over lumbal and spinal veins and heterozygosis for Factor V Leiden abnormality could be identified as cause for thrombosis. It is very likely that symptoms developed as a result of spinal vein hyperplasia and consecutive myelon compression.
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