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VASCULAR VIBRATION INJURY AND PAGET-SHROETTER SYNDROME
PETAR PEKIĆ
; Sveti Duh University Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia
DINKO BEKIĆ
; Sveti Duh University Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology, Zagreb, Croatia
NIKOLINA MARIĆ
; Sveti Duh University Hospital, Division of Emergency and Intensive Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
MAJA MAČKOVIĆ
; Sveti Duh University Hospital, Division of Emergency and Intensive Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Paget-Schroetter syndrome is a relatively uncommon condition related to primary thrombosis of the axillary/subclavian vein at the costoclavicular junction. Vibration injury is an unusual cause of this syndrome. We report on a 28-year-old man who presented with acute onset left arm swelling after whole-day work with a pneumatic drill. Duplex ultrasound confirmed the presence of a thrombus in his left axillary and subclavian vein, which was treated with low molecular weight heparin, eventually switched to oral anticoagulation.
Keywords
axillary/subclavian vein thrombosis; Paget-Schroetter syndrome
Hrčak ID:
165199
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Publication date:
7.9.2016.
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