Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis Diagnosed with Point-of-care Ultrasonography

Abdominal pain is the most common presenting complaint to the emergency department (ED);1 however, acute portal vein thrombosis is an uncommon cause of abdominal pain. In the following case report, we present a patient who presented to the ED with symptoms of gastroenteritis but was ultimately diagn...

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Autores principales: Wells, Daniel, Brackney, Abigail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Depatment of Emergency Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849431
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2016.11.32979
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description Abdominal pain is the most common presenting complaint to the emergency department (ED);1 however, acute portal vein thrombosis is an uncommon cause of abdominal pain. In the following case report, we present a patient who presented to the ED with symptoms of gastroenteritis but was ultimately diagnosed with acute portal vein thrombosis by point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).
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spelling pubmed-59654412018-05-30 Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis Diagnosed with Point-of-care Ultrasonography Wells, Daniel Brackney, Abigail Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report Abdominal pain is the most common presenting complaint to the emergency department (ED);1 however, acute portal vein thrombosis is an uncommon cause of abdominal pain. In the following case report, we present a patient who presented to the ED with symptoms of gastroenteritis but was ultimately diagnosed with acute portal vein thrombosis by point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Depatment of Emergency Medicine 2017-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5965441/ /pubmed/29849431 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2016.11.32979 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Wells et al. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_fullStr Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis Diagnosed with Point-of-care Ultrasonography
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title_short Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis Diagnosed with Point-of-care Ultrasonography
title_sort acute portal vein thrombosis diagnosed with point-of-care ultrasonography
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965441/
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