title: Catheter interventional therapy in an elderly patient with deep vein thrombosis and a brain tumor.
abstract: A 92-year-old woman with a brain tumor developed swelling of the left lower extremity. Venography showed considerable thrombi from the left common iliac vein to the femoral vein. Following implantation of a temporary inferior vena cava filter, catheter aspiration therapy and catheter-directed thrombolysis were performed. Venography after 3 days showed disappearance of the thrombi and an improvement in vein flow. A permanent inferior vena cava filter was implanted. Local intensive thrombectomy and thrombolysis by catheter together with a temporary inferior vena cava filter were effective treatments in this elderly patient with deep vein thrombosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Kure City Medical Association Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ochiai
authors.forename: Norihiko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arataki
authors.forename: Tamako
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kido
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwamoto
authors.forename: Satoe
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications*; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation; D017131:Thrombectomy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016306:Vena Cava Filters; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*