First thought I had, but when you look into what she was diagnosed with, it's not just a blood clot.
May-Thurner syndrome is when your right iliac artery presses on (compresses) your left iliac vein. Your right iliac artery is the main blood vessel that carries blood to your right leg. Your left iliac vein is the main blood vessel that carries blood from your left leg back to your heart. May-Thurner syndrome may interrupt typical blood flow through your legs.
How is May-Thurner syndrome diagnosed?
CT scans: Using specialized computers and X-rays to create images of your blood vessels.
MRIs: Using magnets, radio waves and specialized computers to create images of your blood vessels.
Ultrasounds: Using sound waves to view inside your body.
Venograms: Injecting a contrast dye into your veins, then using X-rays to watch how blood flows through your veins.
Catheter-based venograms: Inserting a small, hollow tube (catheter) into a vein, injecting contrast dye through the catheter, then using X-rays to watch how blood flows through your veins.
Intravascular ultrasounds: Inserting a catheter into your blood vessels, then threading an ultrasound probe through the catheter to get detailed ultrasound images of your blood vessels.
First thought I had, but when you look into what she was diagnosed with, it's not just a blood clot.
How is May-Thurner syndrome diagnosed?
CT scans: Using specialized computers and X-rays to create images of your blood vessels.
MRIs: Using magnets, radio waves and specialized computers to create images of your blood vessels.
Ultrasounds: Using sound waves to view inside your body.
Venograms: Injecting a contrast dye into your veins, then using X-rays to watch how blood flows through your veins.
Catheter-based venograms: Inserting a small, hollow tube (catheter) into a vein, injecting contrast dye through the catheter, then using X-rays to watch how blood flows through your veins.
Intravascular ultrasounds: Inserting a catheter into your blood vessels, then threading an ultrasound probe through the catheter to get detailed ultrasound images of your blood vessels.