An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Pain in a Middle-Aged Female: The Nutcracker Syndrome

A middle-aged female presented with lower abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting and was admitted to the acute hospital. She was thoroughly investigated and treated presumably as having a urinary tract infection. However, she was admitted again shortly after discharge with persistent sym...

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Autores principales: John, Megan Mary, Oo, Than Zaw, Aftab, Syed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9705004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36457599
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30696
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description A middle-aged female presented with lower abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting and was admitted to the acute hospital. She was thoroughly investigated and treated presumably as having a urinary tract infection. However, she was admitted again shortly after discharge with persistent symptoms. A careful evaluation and review were done, and she was diagnosed with nutcracker syndrome based on the clinical assessment, computed tomography (CT), and ultrasound (US) findings.
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spelling pubmed-97050042022-11-30 An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Pain in a Middle-Aged Female: The Nutcracker Syndrome John, Megan Mary Oo, Than Zaw Aftab, Syed Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery A middle-aged female presented with lower abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting and was admitted to the acute hospital. She was thoroughly investigated and treated presumably as having a urinary tract infection. However, she was admitted again shortly after discharge with persistent symptoms. A careful evaluation and review were done, and she was diagnosed with nutcracker syndrome based on the clinical assessment, computed tomography (CT), and ultrasound (US) findings. Cureus 2022-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9705004/ /pubmed/36457599 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30696 Text en Copyright © 2022, John et al. https://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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