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Öğe Recurrent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Vena Caval Filter Obstruction Detected by Bedside Ultrasound(Düzce Üniversitesi, 2016) Yavaşi, Özcan; Durakoğlugil, Tuba; Kayayurt, Kamil; Ersunan, Gökhan; Kalkan, Asım; Giakoup, Barış; Bilir, ÖzlemIntroduction: Venous thromboembolism patients usually present to emergency departments.The diagnosis of these patients are diagnosed with bedside ultrasound examination. We reporta case of recurrent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) in a young patient who had his first attackfollowing pregnancy in the emergency department.Case: A 23 year old female presented with pain and swelling on right leg. Following pregnancy,she had DVT on left leg and an IVC filter was placed with cocomittant thrombectomy. Her rightleg was swollen and tense. Homan’s test was positive. Distal pulses were palpable. She wasconscious and well-appearing. The rest of the physical examination was unremarkable. Bedsideultrasonography performed by emrgency physician revealed non compressible deep andsuperficial veins compatible with DVT. There was also thrombus in IVC from subhepatic regionto femoral veins with no blood stream. At tenth day following mechanical venous thrombectomyshe was discharged for outpatient follow up. Conclusion: Emergency physicians are able to use ultrasound in many clinical scenarios. Inthis patient with previous DVT attack, both lower leg veins and IVC filter were evaluated bybedside ultrasound and early diagnosis was made
