title: A rare case of recurrent hematuria from right kidney: radiologic diagnosis and treatment.
abstract: We report the case of a young woman admitted because of several and recurring episodes of macroscopic hematuria beginned after her first pregnancy. Contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography images showed dilated ovarian veins due to a typical pelvic varicocele. We supposed to be a right ovarian vein syndrome, a rare clinical situation characterized by an anomalous compression of the lumbar ureter by the ectasic ovarian vein; this condition may cause a chronic inflammatory stimulus above the urothelial mucosa with a following hematuria. All symptoms were solved by an endovascular treatment through the sclero-embolisation of the pelvic varicocele. After eighteen months the patient didn't present hematuria anymore and she no longer complained about her right side lumbar pain.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Assistenziale di Diagnostica per Immagini, Sezione di Radiologia Cardiovascolare ed Interventistica, Università degli Studi di Napoli, A.O.U. Policlinico "Federico II", Via Pansini, 5-80131, Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Venetucci
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Quarantelli
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Iaccarino
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