A Case of May-Thurner Syndrome

May-Thurner syndrome, which is also known as iliac vein compression syndrome, is caused when an anatomical variant of the left common iliac vein with a lateral or anterior spur is compressed by the right iliac artery, resulting in thrombosis of the vein. It can present as left deep vein thrombosis w...

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Autores principales: Lakshman, Harini, Barbarawi, Mahmoud, Athwal, Pal Satyajit Singh, Obeid, Michele, Bachuwa, Ghassan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7567318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083189
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10489
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author Lakshman, Harini
Barbarawi, Mahmoud
Athwal, Pal Satyajit Singh
Obeid, Michele
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description May-Thurner syndrome, which is also known as iliac vein compression syndrome, is caused when an anatomical variant of the left common iliac vein with a lateral or anterior spur is compressed by the right iliac artery, resulting in thrombosis of the vein. It can present as left deep vein thrombosis which can lead to pulmonary embolism or chronic changes of venous insufficiency in the left lower limb. We report a 27-year-old female with pain abdomen, who was diagnosed to have May-Thurner syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-75673182020-10-19 A Case of May-Thurner Syndrome Lakshman, Harini Barbarawi, Mahmoud Athwal, Pal Satyajit Singh Obeid, Michele Bachuwa, Ghassan Cureus Internal Medicine May-Thurner syndrome, which is also known as iliac vein compression syndrome, is caused when an anatomical variant of the left common iliac vein with a lateral or anterior spur is compressed by the right iliac artery, resulting in thrombosis of the vein. It can present as left deep vein thrombosis which can lead to pulmonary embolism or chronic changes of venous insufficiency in the left lower limb. We report a 27-year-old female with pain abdomen, who was diagnosed to have May-Thurner syndrome. Cureus 2020-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7567318/ /pubmed/33083189 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10489 Text en Copyright © 2020, Lakshman 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7567318/
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