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Left renal vein aneurysm in a young woman with renal nutcracker syndrome [PDF]

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2019
A 17-year-old girl presented to our institution with abdominal and pelvic pain found to be due to extrinsic compression of the left renal vein, causing a saccular aneurysm and renal vein dilation with varices consistent with nutcracker syndrome.
Andrew Lazar, MD, Kevin Kniery, MD, Nicholas Morrissey, MD   +2 more
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Trauma‐associated left renal vein thrombosis with nutcracker syndrome

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2023
Background Nutcracker syndrome is a compression of the left renal vein between the superior mesenteric artery and aorta, resulting in thrombogenesis. While renal vein thrombosis caused by renal disease is more common, solitary left renal vein thrombosis ...
Shogo Aichi, Shinichi Kimura, Tokuo Fujisawa, Teppei Hayashi, Yusuke Kobayashi, Naoki Muroya, Tomohiro Kurihara   +6 more
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Nutcracker syndrome as the main cause of left renal vein thrombus and pulmonary thromboembolism

IJU Case Reports, 2022
Introduction Left renal vein thrombus complicating nutcracker syndrome is relatively rare. To the best of our knowledge, there have been only four previous case reports.
Kanta Hori, Shota Yamamoto, Maki Kosukegawa, Noboru Yamashita, Yuichiro Shinno   +4 more
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Renal nutcracker syndrome presenting with varicocele: A case series. [PDF]

Int J Surg Case Rep
ABSTRACT Introduction and importance: Nutcracker syndrome (NCS) is a rare condition characterized by left renal vein compression and presents with diverse clinical manifestations. This case series study aims to evaluate the clinical presentations and outcomes of patients with NCS and varicocele.
Mosavari H, Sarafi M, Hosseininasab A, Narimani N, Khaleghian M, Saberi A.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Transposition of the Left Renal Vein in Nutcracker Syndrome [PDF]

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 2006
Mesoaortic compression of left renal vein produces left renal vein hypertension resulting in left flank pain, hematuria and pelvic-ureteral varices. This is called the nutcracker syndrome. The nutcracker syndrome has been treated in various ways. We recently experienced two cases of patients with nutcracker syndrome.
Jung Youn Kim, H Y Choi, Y S Do
exaly   +3 more sources

A case report of a young girl with recurrent hematuria: a missed diagnosis - renal nutcracker syndrome [PDF]

BMC Nephrology, 2019
Background Nutcracker syndrome is an easily missed cause of hematuria in children. It is characterized by left renal vein entrapment between the abdominal aorta and the superior mesenteric artery causing renal venous hypertension.
Haifa Ali Bin Dahman, Ali Omer Aljabry
doaj   +2 more sources

Nutcracker Syndrome Complicated by Left Renal Vein Thrombosis

Case Reports in Urology, 2013
Isolated renal vein thrombosis is a rare entity. We present a patient whose complaint of flank pain led to the diagnosis of a renal vein thrombosis. In this case, abdominal computed tomography angiography was helpful in diagnosing the nutcracker syndrome
Faouzi Mallat, Wissem Hmida, Mehdi Jaidane, Nadia Mama, Faouzi Mosbah   +4 more
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Robotic-assisted left renal vein transposition as a novel surgical technique for the treatment of renal nutcracker syndrome [PDF]

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2018
Renal nutcracker syndrome is an anatomic anomaly characterized by the compression of the left renal vein between the superior mesenteric artery and the aorta or between the aorta and the vertebral body. Diagnosis is often challenging.
Anthony H. Chau, MD, Haidar Abdul-Muhsin, MD, Xin Peng, MD, Victor J. Davila, MD, Erik P. Castle, MD, Samuel R. Money, MD   +5 more
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Degree of Left Renal Vein Compression Predicts Nutcracker Syndrome [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2018
Nutcracker syndrome (NS) refers to symptomatic compression of the left renal vein (LRV) between the abdominal aorta and superior mesenteric artery with potential symptoms including hematuria, proteinuria, left flank pain, and renal venous hypertension. No consensus diagnostic criteria exist to guide endovascular treatment.
Grace Knuttinen, Hassan Albadawi, Sadeer Alzubaidi   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Spinal venous hypertension secondary to nutcracker syndrome—a previously unreported cause of congestive myelopathy [PDF]

BMC Urology
Objective We report a case of myelopathy associated with nutcracker syndrome. Clinical and imaging findings indicate that nutcracker syndrome caused left renal vein stenosis, resulting in spinal venous hypertension.
Fan Chang, Song Li, Yongjia Zhou, Kai Li, Shuai Tang, Zhen Ma, Jing Zhang, Fangmin Chen   +7 more
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