Thrombolytic Therapy in a Patient with Chronic Renal Vein Thrombosis

Thrombolytic therapy in a patient with chronic renal vein thrombosis.

a case of chronic renal vein thrombosis treated with thrombolytic drugs

renal vein thrombosis (rvt) is the most frequent vascular abnormality in newborns, but rarely seen in adults. rvt is an acute problem, and diagnostic and therapeutic approaches should be done immediately. surgical thrombectomy is not a rational approach and the treatment of choice is conservative management and thrombolytic therapy. we present a 45 years old male patient with chronic renal vein...

Thrombolytic Therapy for Cerebral Vein Thrombosis in Antiphospholipid Syndrome Secondary to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

A 20-year-old woman was admitted to a Gynecology Hospital in her 6th month of pregnancy for high blood pressure and tonic-clonic seizure. Primary diagnosis was eclampsia, and for that reason she underwent cesarean section. She also had headache on frontal and parietal areas without nausea or vomiting. There was not a focal neurological sign. Rheumatology consultation was requested. Systemic lup...

Direct thrombolytic therapy in portal and mesenteric vein thrombosis.

A 34-year-old female from Laos presented to the emergency department with a 3-week history of worsening abdominal pain; she subsequently developed an acute abdomen requiring emergent exploratory laparotomy. An intraoperative angiography was performed, which revealed complete portal vein thrombosis. A 5F 20-cm infusion catheter was placed through an omental vein, and tissue plasminogen activator...

Local thrombolytic therapy for primary axillosubclavian vein thrombosis

A 54-year-old architect was admitted with a one-week history of a painful, swollen right arm. The patient was otherwise healthy with no significant past medical history and, in particular, no antecedent history of venous thromboembolism nor of trauma or heavy use of the limb. On examination, the right arm was grossly swollen, warm and erythematous with visible distension of the collateral veins...