@article{Pinto Sousa_2022, place={Matosinhos, Portugal}, title={ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT FOR POSTTHROMBOTIC SYNDROME DUE TO UTERINE FIBROIDS}, volume={17}, url={https://acvjournal.com/index.php/acv/article/view/304}, DOI={10.48750/acv.304}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Uterine fibroids are the most common solid pelvic tumors in women, frequently causing hypomenorrhea.<br />They normally do not carry an increased risk for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) unless they reach a considerable size conditioning inferior vena cava and pelvic veins compression.<br />Postthrombotic iliac vein obstructive lesions resulting from a prior episode of DVT may lead to clinical signs and</p> <p>symptoms of chronic vein disease.<br />There is no role for prophylactic treatment of silent lesions. However, if patients develop advanced symptoms (CEAP C3-C6 classification) despite best medical treatment, patients are candidates for endovascular correction with stenting. Endovenous correction of ilio-caval pathology is associated with high technical success rate and reduced complications, around 0.4%.<br />The authors describe a clinical case of a 47 years-old female patient that developed post-thrombotic syndrome due to a DVT, caused by compression from a large uterine fibroid, treated with endovascular surgery.</p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={4}, journal={Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular}, author={Pinto Sousa, Pedro}, year={2022}, month={Mar.}, pages={344–348} }