A rare case of septic thrombosis in the inferior vena cava with embolism

Summary

This paper presents the case of a 61-year-old female patient who complained about exhaustion and fever during curative therapy, a few weeks after hysterectomie and adnexectomy. Antibiotic therapy could only improve these symptoms though only in the short term. Additionally, a venous port, which had been implanted for the purpose of cytoreduction chemotherapy, was suspected of a catheter infection and was removed. However, this did not lead to a substantial improvement of the patient’s general state of health, but ultimately triggered a sepsis, making necessary treatment in intensive care unit. At this stage, the detailed search for the focus of the infection led to the discovery of an infected thrombosis of the inferior vena cava with bilateral septic pulmonal embolisms and with an abscess. Thus, the source of sepsis had to be removed by surgery, a transfemoral thrombectomy was performed and an inguinal arteriovenous fistula was created. The further course of the disease was without complications; the patient could be released into ambulant treatment 24 days after the surgery. The elective sealing of the arteriovenous fistula was carried out 11 months later. In the follow- up, there were no hints for infection; the deep venous system in particular did not indicate any new thrombosis or of residual thrombi, with the tumor follow-up-care showing a complete remission.

Keywords

Septic deep vein thrombosis - venous thrombectomy

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