Renal vein thrombosis in the post-partum period: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Abdelghani El Fikri¹  Mbarek Mahfoudi¹  Lahcen Belyamani²  Youssef Berrada¹  Redouane Rokhssi¹  El Mehdi Atmane¹  Ahmed Belkouch²  Abdelilah Mouhsine¹ 

[1] Department of Radiology, Avicenna Military Hospital, Avenue Al Mouqaouama, Marrakech 40000, Morocco;Emergency Department, Mohamed V Military Hospital of Instruction, Hay ryad avenue des Far, Rabat 10000, Morocco

关键词: Venous renal infarction;    Post-partum;    Hypercoagulability;    Hematuria;    Flank pain;   

Others  :  1180857
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-1947-8-462

 received in 2014-09-06, accepted in 2014-11-25,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Introduction

Physiological hypercoagulability is a known condition in pregnancy designed to limit the risk of bleeding; it may exceptionally be complicated by thrombosis of the renal vein. To the best of our knowledge, this is the third case of renal venous infarction reported in the literature.

Case presentation

We report the case of a 43-year-old Caucasian woman, a mother of three sons who presented with left flank pain and hematuria. The clinical investigations did not find any other cause for her thrombophilia.

Conclusions

Clinical onset is not specific, so it is important to evoke the diagnosis in the context of pregnancy; computed tomography angiography is the investigation of choice to set the diagnosis. It is important to know that anticoagulation therapy must be initiated as soon as possible.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Mouhsine et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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