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Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Ovarian vein thrombosis (OVT) is a potentially life-threatening condition, and it is typically related to the peripartum period; however, it is also associated with pelvic inflammatory disease, recent pelvic or abdominal surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, thrombophilia, malignancy, and sepsis. Idi...

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Autores principales: Basit, Abdul, Kaur, Pushpinder, Villanueva, Diana M, Tahir, Muhammad, Sonnenschine, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33005529
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10111
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author Basit, Abdul
Kaur, Pushpinder
Villanueva, Diana M
Tahir, Muhammad
Sonnenschine, Mark
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description Ovarian vein thrombosis (OVT) is a potentially life-threatening condition, and it is typically related to the peripartum period; however, it is also associated with pelvic inflammatory disease, recent pelvic or abdominal surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, thrombophilia, malignancy, and sepsis. Idiopathic isolated OVT is rare and is usually presented as case reports in the medical literature. In this report, we present a case of bilateral OVT in a postmenopausal female with no identifiable risk factors and normal coagulation profile workup to highlight the importance of considering it as a differential diagnosis in female patients presenting with abdominal pain. Early identification can prevent potentially life-threatening complications. Management is often conservative, and the choice of anticoagulation is based on the patient’s medical conditions. In this particular scenario, the patient was managed with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and transitioned to direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) before discharge.
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spelling pubmed-75235472020-09-30 Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Basit, Abdul Kaur, Pushpinder Villanueva, Diana M Tahir, Muhammad Sonnenschine, Mark Cureus Internal Medicine Ovarian vein thrombosis (OVT) is a potentially life-threatening condition, and it is typically related to the peripartum period; however, it is also associated with pelvic inflammatory disease, recent pelvic or abdominal surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, thrombophilia, malignancy, and sepsis. Idiopathic isolated OVT is rare and is usually presented as case reports in the medical literature. In this report, we present a case of bilateral OVT in a postmenopausal female with no identifiable risk factors and normal coagulation profile workup to highlight the importance of considering it as a differential diagnosis in female patients presenting with abdominal pain. Early identification can prevent potentially life-threatening complications. Management is often conservative, and the choice of anticoagulation is based on the patient’s medical conditions. In this particular scenario, the patient was managed with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and transitioned to direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) before discharge. Cureus 2020-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7523547/ /pubmed/33005529 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10111 Text en Copyright © 2020, Basit 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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Basit, Abdul
Kaur, Pushpinder
Villanueva, Diana M
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Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Idiopathic Bilateral Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in a Non-Pregnant Healthy Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort idiopathic bilateral ovarian vein thrombosis in a non-pregnant healthy patient: a case report and review of the literature
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33005529
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10111
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