Sport-Related Portal Vein Thrombosis: An Unusual Complication

Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is an uncommon condition usually associated with hypercoagulable states or liver cirrhosis. PVT due to sports-related injuries is rarely reported and, to the best of our knowledge, only two cases have been reported thus far. Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a form of martial...

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Autores principales: Dumic, Igor, Tankosic, Nikola, Stojkovic Lalosevic, Milica, Alempijevic, Tamara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5702391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29259831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9324246
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author Dumic, Igor
Tankosic, Nikola
Stojkovic Lalosevic, Milica
Alempijevic, Tamara
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description Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is an uncommon condition usually associated with hypercoagulable states or liver cirrhosis. PVT due to sports-related injuries is rarely reported and, to the best of our knowledge, only two cases have been reported thus far. Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a form of martial arts and is considered very safe with minimal risk for injury. It has growing popularity worldwide. Here, we report the first case of PVT secondary to abdominal trauma related to the practice of (BJJ) in an otherwise healthy 32-year-old man with no other traditional risk factors for PVT.
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spelling pubmed-57023912017-12-19 Sport-Related Portal Vein Thrombosis: An Unusual Complication Dumic, Igor Tankosic, Nikola Stojkovic Lalosevic, Milica Alempijevic, Tamara Case Reports Hepatol Case Report Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is an uncommon condition usually associated with hypercoagulable states or liver cirrhosis. PVT due to sports-related injuries is rarely reported and, to the best of our knowledge, only two cases have been reported thus far. Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a form of martial arts and is considered very safe with minimal risk for injury. It has growing popularity worldwide. Here, we report the first case of PVT secondary to abdominal trauma related to the practice of (BJJ) in an otherwise healthy 32-year-old man with no other traditional risk factors for PVT. Hindawi 2017 2017-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5702391/ /pubmed/29259831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9324246 Text en Copyright © 2017 Igor Dumic et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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