Curious Case of Acute Unilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis: May-Thurner Syndrome

May-Thurner syndrome (MTS) or iliac vein compression syndrome is an uncommon cause of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the lower limb occurring, especially on the left side. It occurs due to compression of the left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery and occurs predominantly in young f...

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Autores principales: Bhat, Manohar N. M., Vadala, Rohit, Rabindrarajan, Ebenezer, Ramakrishnan, Nagarajan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111937
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_393_17
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author Bhat, Manohar N. M.
Vadala, Rohit
Rabindrarajan, Ebenezer
Ramakrishnan, Nagarajan
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description May-Thurner syndrome (MTS) or iliac vein compression syndrome is an uncommon cause of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the lower limb occurring, especially on the left side. It occurs due to compression of the left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery and occurs predominantly in young females. The awareness of such a presentation is essential to guide therapy. We report one such unusual case of acute-onset DVT of the left lower limb due to MTS.
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spelling pubmed-60693062018-08-15 Curious Case of Acute Unilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis: May-Thurner Syndrome Bhat, Manohar N. M. Vadala, Rohit Rabindrarajan, Ebenezer Ramakrishnan, Nagarajan Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report May-Thurner syndrome (MTS) or iliac vein compression syndrome is an uncommon cause of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the lower limb occurring, especially on the left side. It occurs due to compression of the left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery and occurs predominantly in young females. The awareness of such a presentation is essential to guide therapy. We report one such unusual case of acute-onset DVT of the left lower limb due to MTS. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6069306/ /pubmed/30111937 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_393_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Curious Case of Acute Unilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis: May-Thurner Syndrome
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title_full Curious Case of Acute Unilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis: May-Thurner Syndrome
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title_short Curious Case of Acute Unilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis: May-Thurner Syndrome
title_sort curious case of acute unilateral deep vein thrombosis: may-thurner syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111937
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_393_17
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