Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report

De novo thrombosis of the inferior vena cava (IVC) can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Calcified thrombus of IVC is an extremely rare incidental finding and is associated with recurrent deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). We present a case of abdominal pain secondary...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Mohamed, Saeed, Rasha, Abdulsalam, May, Johna, Samir, Elias, Dina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31616615
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5384
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author Ahmed, Mohamed
Saeed, Rasha
Abdulsalam, May
Johna, Samir
Elias, Dina
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description De novo thrombosis of the inferior vena cava (IVC) can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Calcified thrombus of IVC is an extremely rare incidental finding and is associated with recurrent deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). We present a case of abdominal pain secondary to a calcified thrombus in the supra-hepatic region of the IVC.
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spelling pubmed-67868402019-10-15 Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report Ahmed, Mohamed Saeed, Rasha Abdulsalam, May Johna, Samir Elias, Dina Cureus Internal Medicine De novo thrombosis of the inferior vena cava (IVC) can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Calcified thrombus of IVC is an extremely rare incidental finding and is associated with recurrent deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). We present a case of abdominal pain secondary to a calcified thrombus in the supra-hepatic region of the IVC. Cureus 2019-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6786840/ /pubmed/31616615 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5384 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ahmed et al. http://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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Ahmed, Mohamed
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Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report
title Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report
title_full Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report
title_fullStr Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report
title_short Inferior Vena Cava Calcified Thrombus Presenting With Abdominal Pain: A Case Report
title_sort inferior vena cava calcified thrombus presenting with abdominal pain: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786840/
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