PANNICULITIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 26-year-old Caucasian woman presents for evaluation of painful, red nodules on her bilateral shins that started several days ago. The nodules were initially bright…
PAGET-SCHROETTER SYNDROME
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A previously healthy 22-year-old man presents with a 3-day history of right upper extremity swelling and pain. He is a competitive cross fit athlete and…
PHLEGMASIA CERULEA DOLENS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 65-year-old gentleman was referred with left lower extremity phlegmasia cerulea dolens (PCD) 1 day following an exploratory laparotomy. Postoperatively he developed painful diffuse swelling…
OVERVIEW OF SPIDER, RETICULAR, AND VARICOSE VEINS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 44-year-old man presents with a 5-year history of progressive right lower extremity pain, discomfort, swelling and prominent calf veins (Figure 63-1). His symptoms occur…
STASIS DERMATITIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 55-year-old-woman was admitted to the hospital to rule out bilateral lower extremity cellulitis. She presented with lower extremity edema and sharply demarcated pretibial erythema…
MESENTERIC VENOUS THROMBOSIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 76-year-old Caucasian man presented with acute onset of intense periumbilical abdominal pain associated with nonbloody diarrhea. His past medical history was significant for portal…
MAY-THURNER SYNDROME
PATIENT HISTORY Print Section Listen A 35-year-old woman presented with a 2-day history of progressive left lower extremity pain and swelling. She had started oral contraceptives 4 months prior, and…
BENIGN ACUTE BLUE FINGER
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 35-year-old Caucasian man was referred for evaluation of recurrent upper extremity digital ischemia. He had experienced three discrete episodes of acute right finger discoloration…
HEPARIN-, LOW–MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN–, AND WARFARIN-INDUCED SKIN NECROSIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 53-year-old woman was treated with intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) for an acute pulmonary embolism. She was started on 10 mg of warfarin on her…
MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF FEMOROPOPLITEAL DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 44-year-old Caucasian woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-week-history of right-leg pain and edema involving the lower thigh to the ankle. One…
