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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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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 Alouidor, Reginald Theodore, Sheina |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Pinto, Frederique Alouidor, Reginald Theodore, Sheina 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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