Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis is a rare puerperal complication. It is an important differential diagnosis of postpartum fever and abdominal pain and although the condition is well known its diagnosis can be challenging. We report a case of a 41-year-old woman with fever and right abdominal pain three days after an uncomplicated caesarean delivery. Clinical, laboratory and imaging exams were un...

A 46-year-old man visited the emergency department of our hospital with a 3-day history of anal pain, hemorrhaging, and a slight fever. He had previously been diagnosed with protein C deficiency and was prescribed dabigatran, a direct oral anticoagulant. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed severe rectal wall thickening with partial defect of enhancement. In addition, sigmoidoscopy reve...

Sixteen patients with idiopathic recurrent superficial thrombophlebitis were shown to have a defect of blood and tissue fibrinolytic activity. After six months' treatment with stanozolol their mean dilute blood clot lysis time and plasma fibrinogen fell significantly and the mean fibrin plate lysis area increased. Attacks of thrombophlebitis stopped completely in 13 patients, though five patien...

Thrombophlebitis of the superficial cerebral veins and the dural venous sinuses is now a well-recognized complication of infective processes, not only about the head and neck but elsewhere in the body (Symonds, 1931, 1937, 1940; Purdon Martin and Sheehan, 1941; Purdon Martin, 1941). Most. observers, however, have realized the difficulty in establishing the final pathological diagnosis, particul...

Eight Thai patients less than 15 years of age who were diagnosed with cavernous sinus thrombophlebitis at Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand over the past 30 years were reviewed retrospectively. The predisposing infections and causative microorganisms were similar to previous reports in children and adults. Despite severe neurologic dysfunction during admission, including blindness, there ...

are given below :? Case 1.?A Mohammedan boy, aged 10, had a boil on the tip of his nose which he scratched eight days previously. Spreading swelling of the face, suffusion of the eyelids and protrusion of the left eye followed. On the eighth day he _ was seen tohave swelling of the entire face, chemosis and oedema. of the left upper lid and root of nose, proptosis of the left eye; complete opht...