Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report

Patients with lupus anticoagulants are at high risk of systemic arterial and venous thrombosis and arterial stroke. We present an unusual case of a young man presenting inguinal pain. Doppler ultrasound revealed spermatic vein thrombosis on the left side. Hematologic workup revealed positive lupus a...

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Autores principales: Aynaou, Mohammed, Mhanna, Tarik, Elhoumaidi, Amine, Boateng, Paapa Dua, Barki, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7422753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32849980
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.125.20448
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author Aynaou, Mohammed
Mhanna, Tarik
Elhoumaidi, Amine
Boateng, Paapa Dua
Barki, Ali
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description Patients with lupus anticoagulants are at high risk of systemic arterial and venous thrombosis and arterial stroke. We present an unusual case of a young man presenting inguinal pain. Doppler ultrasound revealed spermatic vein thrombosis on the left side. Hematologic workup revealed positive lupus anticoagulant. The patient was treated with therapeutic heparin.
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spelling pubmed-74227532020-08-25 Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report Aynaou, Mohammed Mhanna, Tarik Elhoumaidi, Amine Boateng, Paapa Dua Barki, Ali Pan Afr Med J Case Report Patients with lupus anticoagulants are at high risk of systemic arterial and venous thrombosis and arterial stroke. We present an unusual case of a young man presenting inguinal pain. Doppler ultrasound revealed spermatic vein thrombosis on the left side. Hematologic workup revealed positive lupus anticoagulant. The patient was treated with therapeutic heparin. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7422753/ /pubmed/32849980 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.125.20448 Text en ©Mohammed Aynaou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report
title Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report
title_full Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report
title_fullStr Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report
title_short Spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report
title_sort spermatic vein thrombosis with lupus anticoagulant, a cause of acute inguinal pain: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7422753/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.125.20448
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