Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) may occur following head trauma and contribute to intracranial hypertension that mandates immediate action. Anticoagulant therapy is the first line of treatment in CVST but may not be applicable in patients with head trauma. Here, we report on the treatment of 2 patients with CVST. In 1 patient, there was an attempt to perform thrombectomy and thrombolysi...

BACKGROUND While venous thromboembolism (VTE) is uncommon, its incidence is increasing in children. We aimed to evaluate the incidence, risk factors, treatment, and outcome of pediatric VTE cases at a single tertiary hospital in Korea. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the records of consecutive pediatric VTE patients admitted to the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital between April ...

Surgical resection of renal cell carcinoma remains the mainstay for the management of patients who suffer from this disease. Five percent to 10% of renal cell carcinomas develop a tumor thrombus that propagates into the renal vein or the inferior vena cava. Radical nephrectomy and inferior vena cava thrombectomy can provide longstanding survival rates comparable to those for tumors confined to ...

Joel T Levis, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAAEM, is a Senior Emergency Physician at the Santa Clara Medical Center, and Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine (Surgery) at Stanford University. He is the Medical Director for the Foothill College Paramedic Program in Los Altos, CA. E-mail: [email protected]. Danny L Sam, MD, FACP, is a Senior Internal Medicine Physician, Director of Graduate Medical Educa...

INTRODUCTION Venous tumor thrombus of thyroid cancer that extend to the great vein is rare, and management criteria for venous thrombus have not been established yet. We report a surgical case of thyroid carcinoma with extensive tumor thrombus in the superior vena cava (SVC) and consider the appropriate treatment strategy for venous thrombus. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 75-year-old woman consulted...

Phlegmasia cerulea dolens (PCD) is an uncommon, severe form of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis characterized by extremity swelling, cyanosis, and pain. Progression of the thrombotic process may result in extremity gangrene, amputation, and death. The relative value of specific therapeutic regimens in the treatment of this disease remains uncertain. Twelve patients, 9 females and 3 males,...

Objective: Two cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) effectively recanalized endovascularly by a combination of thromboaspiration using Cerulean catheter DD6 and stent retriever device are reported. Case Presentations: We endovascularly treated two cases of CVST that presented with progressive vomiting and disturbance of consciousness several days before the diagnosis of occlusion of...

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background: early clinical and retrospective angiographic evaluations indicated that in patients with acute myocardial infarction (mi), vulnerable plaques most often represented a mild luminal stenosis. more recent studies drawing upon prospective angiograms, however, have demonstrated that in majority of patients with acute mi, the underlying stenosis is significant.   methods: twenty-eight pa...