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Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury

Traumatic inferior vena cava (IVC) injuries are often fatal. Blunt IVC injuries are encountered less often. Conservative management, albeit an option, is not often discussed in the literature. This report explores the non-operative management of a 52-year-old female unrestrained driver who presented...

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Autores principales: Pinto, Frederique, Alouidor, Reginald, Theodore, Sheina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123768
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36746
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author Pinto, Frederique
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description Traumatic inferior vena cava (IVC) injuries are often fatal. Blunt IVC injuries are encountered less often. Conservative management, albeit an option, is not often discussed in the literature. This report explores the non-operative management of a 52-year-old female unrestrained driver who presented with a blunt retrohepatic IVC injury identified on a computed tomography (CT) scan that revealed IVC disruption with extravasation of contrast. Here, we discuss the nonoperative management of the patient and review the literature concerning IVC anatomy, traumatic injuries, and management. We conclude that a hemodynamically stable patient with an isolated blunt traumatic IVC injury can be managed non-operatively.
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spelling pubmed-101323252023-04-27 Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury Pinto, Frederique Alouidor, Reginald Theodore, Sheina Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Traumatic inferior vena cava (IVC) injuries are often fatal. Blunt IVC injuries are encountered less often. Conservative management, albeit an option, is not often discussed in the literature. This report explores the non-operative management of a 52-year-old female unrestrained driver who presented with a blunt retrohepatic IVC injury identified on a computed tomography (CT) scan that revealed IVC disruption with extravasation of contrast. Here, we discuss the nonoperative management of the patient and review the literature concerning IVC anatomy, traumatic injuries, and management. We conclude that a hemodynamically stable patient with an isolated blunt traumatic IVC injury can be managed non-operatively. Cureus 2023-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10132325/ /pubmed/37123768 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36746 Text en Copyright © 2023, Pinto et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury
title Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury
title_full Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury
title_fullStr Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury
title_full_unstemmed Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury
title_short Non-operative Management of an Isolated Blunt Traumatic Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury
title_sort non-operative management of an isolated blunt traumatic retrohepatic inferior vena cava injury
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10132325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123768
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36746
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