Inferior vena cava thrombosis
- University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, West Midlands, UK
- Correspondence to Iman Qureshi, iman23{at}doctors.org.uk
Description
A 56-year-old woman presented to Accident and Emergency with a gradual onset shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. D-dimer was elevated at 3.43 mg/l, electrocardiography showed sinus tachycardia and chest x-ray was normal. CT pulmonary angiography performed on admission showed the presence of a subsegmental pulmonary embolism in the right middle lobe, as well as …