Parth M. Patel Satheesh Gunaga Gale Darnell Gehring Sauter Benjamin Glasener
Henry Ford Health System
05-01-2020
We describe the emergency department (ED) and hospital course of a young male patient that came in with a chief complaint of lower back pain and was ultimately diagnosed with an acute deep venous thro..
We describe the emergency department (ED) and hospital course of a young male patient that came in with a chief complaint of lower back pain and was ultimately diagnosed with an acute deep venous thrombosis (DVT) precipitated by an underlying congenital abnormality of the Inferior Vena Cava (IVC). Often lower back pain in young patients can be dismissed as musculoskeletal back pain. It is for this reason, that doing a thorough review of systems and physical exam is so critical. Congenital variations or anomalies of the IVC are relatively uncommon but must be on the differential with patients presenting with back pain and symptoms involving multiple organ systems.