title: Acute Pulmonary Embolism due to Paget-Schroetter Syndrome.
abstract: A 17-year-old Japanese male athlete presented to the emergency department at our hospital with a chief complaint of exertional dyspnea. Although there were no significant findings in the right and left upper extremities on a physical examination, a chest computed tomography scan showed bilateral multiple thrombosis in the pulmonary arteries, indicating pulmonary thromboembolism, and deep vein thrombosis in the left subclavian vein. Upper limb venography showed interruption of the left subclavian vein (so-called Paget-Schroetter syndrome; PSS). We herein report this rare case of PSS that led to pulmonary thromboembolism in a young, male field athlete.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Nakatsu Municipal Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshifumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tounai
authors.forename: Takachika
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Syoji
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukumoto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D013350:Subclavian Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D056824:Upper Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants