Arm Pain and Swelling in a College Swimmer: A Case of Paget-Schroetter Syndrome.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-13-2020
Abstract
A 20-year-old male swimmer presented to the emergency department with right arm pain and swelling several days after a weight training session following swim team practice. The initial diagnosis was muscle strain, and the patient was discharged. The next day, he was evaluated by his swim team physician, who ordered right upper extremity duplex ultrasonographic imaging, which revealed no flow and thrombosis in the subclavian and axillary veins, and Paget-Schroetter syndrome was diagnosed. He subsequently had a mechanical thrombectomy and catheter-directed thrombolysis was initiated with placement of a lytic catheter for continuous infusion of tissue type plasminogen activator.
ISSN
1945-1997
Published In/Presented At
Davis, R., Reed, E., & Kraus, C. (2020). Arm Pain and Swelling in a College Swimmer: A Case of Paget-Schroetter Syndrome. The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 10.7556/jaoa.2020.022. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2020.022
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
31930395
Department(s)
Department of Emergency Medicine
Document Type
Article