Endovascular treatment of obliterative hepatocavopathy with inferior vena cava occlusion and renal vein thrombosis.
We describe the endovascular treatment of an occlusion of the inferior vena cava (IVC) due to obliterative hepatocavopathy with renal and iliac vein thrombosis. A 34-year-old man with nephrotic syndrome and hepatic dysfunction presented to the hospital after a 3-month history of lower extremity swelling with an acute deterioration in his condition. Magnetic resonance venography diagnosed a massive IVC occlusion with thrombosis of the entire IVC, iliac veins, and renal vein. He was treated with thrombolysis, and a chronic occlusion of the infrahepatic IVC was discovered. After venous stenting of the IVC and iliac veins, he dramatically improved. After 24 months, he remains symptom-free with a patent IVC and iliac veins.
Thompson
Charles S
CS
Vascular Surgery, Vascular Specialists of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32806, USA. cthompson@arteryandvein.com
Cohen
Michael J
MJ
Wesley
Jon M
JM
D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009404:Nephrotic Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D012082:Renal Veins; D015607:Stents; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*