INTRODUCTION Portal vein thrombosis is an uncommon post-operative complication following abdominal surgery. Although therapeutic anticoagulation is recommended, this treatment may be questionable when the patient has an associated bleeding diathesis. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 63-year-old woman of Asian Indian ethnicity who developed portal vein thrombosis following an uneventful...

introduction: determining the proper angle for inserting central venous catheter (cv line) is of great importance for decreasing the complications and increasing success rate. the present study was designed to determine the proper angle of needle insertion for internal jugular vein catheterization.  methods: in the present case series study, candidate patients for catheterization of the right i...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the sequential CT findings of controlled hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with main portal vein (MPV) thrombosis with the use of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and additional intra-arterial cisplatin infusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 2004 to September 2006, 138 patients with HCC invading MPV were referred to the angiogr...

This study is to explore and evaluate the efficacy and safety of local thrombolytic therapy in superior sagittal sinus in patients with severe cerebral venous sinus thrombosis during puerperium, as well as the efficacy and safety of anti-platelet aggregation treatment for preventing recurrence. Twelve patients during postpartum period with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis were received local th...

BACKGROUND Factor V Leiden has been reported in 2%-30% of patients with portal vein thrombosis. This wide variation makes it difficult to assess the importance of factor V Leiden as a predisposing factor. METHODS Factor V Leiden was determined by restriction fragment length polymorphism in 112 patients with portal vein thrombosis, 104 with deep vein thrombosis and 98 control subjects. RESUL...

PURPOSE Convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage (cSAH) comprises less than 5% of cases of nontraumatic SAH and frequently presents as a focal and transient neurological deficits that mimics transient ischemic attack (TIA). Isolated cortical vein thrombosis (ICVT) is rare and accounts for only 6.3% of cerebral venous thrombosis. We present a case of minor stroke due to cSAH secondary to ICVT, and alos ...

To refine 1974 results on venous thrombosis and oral contraceptives (OCs) from a prospective study begun in 1968 comparing 23,000 women using OCs with 23,000 controls, women with known preexisting conditions relevant to thrombosis were excluded. Rates in each contraceptive category (users, ex-users, and controls) were indirectly standardized for age, parity, cigarette consumption, and social c...

BACKGROUND Prospective studies of nonpregnant patients have demonstrated that most deep vein thromboses of the lower extremity originate in the calf veins and progress proximally, but the anatomic distribution of thromboses in pregnant patients is unclear. An understanding of the anatomic distribution of deep vein thrombosis in pregnancy has important implications for optimizing diagnostic imag...

deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and pulmonary embolism (pte) are known as venous thromboembolism (vte). dvt occurs when a thrombus (a blood clot) forms in deep veins of the body, usually in the lower extremities. it can cause swelling or leg pain, but sometimes may occur with no symptoms. awareness of dvt is the best way to prevent the vte. patients with trauma are at increased risk of dvt and subse...