You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Paget-Schroetter syndrome complicated by an incidental pulmonary embolism
  1. Jakub Kaczynski,
  2. Joseph Sathiananthan
  1. Vascular Surgery, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, UK
  1. Correspondence to Jakub Kaczynski, jakub.kaczynski{at}hotmail.co.uk

Summary

A young man presented with the severe right upper limb swelling following a heavy weight lifting that was thought to be caused by a biceps tendon rupture. However, subsequent investigations confirmed the diagnosis of Paget-Schroetter syndrome that was associated with an incidental pulmonary embolism. The patient underwent a successful thrombolysis followed by a surgical thoracic outlet decompression. Overall, the patient has made a good recovery.

  • Vascular Surgery
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Interventional radiology

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-219982

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors JK performed literature search and drafted the manuscript. JS checked and approved the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.