Epidemiologic characteristics

Male 25 (50%)

Female 25 (50%)

Mean age 65.3

Ranging: 20 to 88

Risk factors

Malignancy

Total of 37 (74%)

Kidney cancer (36% right; 8% left); Pancreas (8%); Ovary (8%); Colorectal (8%); Hepatocellular (6%); No Hodgkin’s lymphoma (6%); Others (20%).

Smoking habit

Smoker 7 (14%); Ex smoker 9 (18%); Non-smoker 34 (68%)

Hormonal disturbance

Oral Contraceptives 1 (2%); Pregnancy 1 (2%)

Prolonged immobilization

3 (6%)

Major general surgery

5 (10%)

Abdominal trauma

1 (2%)

Percutaneous intervention

3 (6%)

Vascular anatomical variants

2 (4%)

Intravascular devices

5 (10%)

Budd Chiari

0 (0%)

Thrombophilic syndromes

2 (4%)

History of venous thromboembolism

4 (8%)

Onset symptoms

Asymptomatic onset

22 (44%)

Symptomatic onset

28 (56%)

Deep vein thrombosis (14%); Lower limb swelling (22%); Lower limb pain (20%); Abdominal pain (32%); Back pain (28%); Pulmonary embolism (6%); Phlegmasia cerulean dolens (2%).

Imaging technique

Nuclear magnetic resonance

2 (4%)

Computerized axial tomography

42 (84%)

Doppler ultrasound

13 (26%)

Complications derived from anticoagulation

Deep vein thrombosis

2 (4%).

Pulmonary embolism

3 (6%)

Glomerular filtration rate decrease

9 (18%)

Death

None

Complications derived from IVC Thrombosis

Bleeding

2 (4%).

Thrombopenia

None

Death

None

Death secondary to underlying disease 33 (66%)