Symptoma

Phlebitis of the Chest Wall

Chest Wall Phlebitis

A 37-year-old woman presented with sudden onset of local pain and edema on her right chest wall, accompanied by a longitudinal retraction of the skin during arm abduction in the area. [ijdvl.com]

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A 4-year-old boy presented to a clinic in Nairobi with fever and watery diarrhea. [nejm.org]

CASE PRESENTATION The author presents a case of a 35-year-old male Japanese patient with cord-like induration in the right lateral thoracic wall. This lesion was diagnosed as traumatic funicular phlebitis, resembling Mondor's disease. [unboundmedicine.com]

  • Localized Pain

    A 37-year-old woman presented with sudden onset of local pain and edema on her right chest wall, accompanied by a longitudinal retraction of the skin during arm abduction in the area. [ijdvl.com]

  • Chest Wall Pain

    Ankylosing spondylitis can cause diffuse anterior chest wall pain, often associated with local tenderness over the sternum and costal cartilages. 3.3.3 Less Common Musculoskeletal Conditions 3.3.3.1 Tietze’s syndrome Tietze’s syndrome causes pain [whatdotheyknow.com]

  • Non-Cardiac Chest Pain

    Psychological treatment for atypical non-cardiac chest pain: a controlled evaluation. Psychol Med 1990; 20: 605-11. 4. Mayou R, Bryant B, Forfar C, Clark D. Non-cardiac chest pain and benign palpitations in the cardiac clinic. [whatdotheyknow.com]

  • Arthritis

    In Prevention's Healing with Vitamins: The Most Effective Vitamin and Mineral Treatment for Everyday Health Problems and Serious Disease-From Allergies and Arthritis to Water Retention and Wrinkles. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, Inc., 1996. [encyclopedia.com]

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  • Muscle Strain

    In many cases it is idiopathic, although it has also been linked with recent breast surgery, local trauma, excessive physical activity with muscle strain, an inflammatory process, infections, and mammary pathology including mastitis or abscess. 2 Association [hkmj.org]

  • Foot Ulcer

    Other symptoms include visual and sphincter disturbances, impotence, ataxia (wide stamping gait, worsened by eye closure), gastric or other tabetic crises and trophic lesions (e.g. arthropathies and perforating foot ulcers). [whatdotheyknow.com]

  • Subcutaneous Nodule

    He was pale and icteric, with severe acute malnutrition (mid–upper arm circumference, 11.3 cm), and he had a row of painless, rubbery, mobile, subcutaneous nodules running inferomedially from his left nipple to the central epigastric region. [nejm.org]

  • Flushing

    It was stopping up every time she left the room and I was having to call her right back to flush it out and re-start the IV. It was throwing clots. So finally she wanted to ask my doctor if the IV could just come out all together. [inspire.com]

  • Fear

    The veins become inflamed because they get clots in them - not clots in the deep veins which would be the feared deep vein thrombosis (DVT), but clots in the superficial veins just under the skin which is more properly called superficial venous thrombophlebitis [huffingtonpost.co.uk]

    “No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” [community.breastcancer.org]

    Medical Services CHEST PAIN EBM – Chest Pain Version: 2a (draft) MED/S2/CMEP 0053 (e) Page 1 Medical Services 1 Introduction Chest pain is a very common complaint and often creates fear, for sufferers and relatives, of serious heart or lung disease. [whatdotheyknow.com]

  • Tingling

    People with the disorder may feel numbness or tingling in their fingers and toes. They may also notice that their skin turns pale or blue, followed by reddening in the affected areas. [texasheart.org]

  • Burning Sensation

    Irregular fever Burning sensation of the skin Pain of the muscles of the joints Erythematous rash, redness and tenderness along the course of a vein T: Normal C: Yellow P: Rapid Blood Stasis due to Cold : Affected limb is cold Aversion to Cold Numbness [americandragon.com]

Clinical, histological and ultrasonographic findings confirmed Mondor's disease and the treatment was symptomatic, using pain relievers and warm compresses. The symptomatology remitted within 2 weeks of therapy. [ijdvl.com]

Lumpectomy and radiation therapy for the treatment of intraductal breast cancer: Findings from National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-17. ‎ [books.google.com]

Bauersachs RM (2013) Diagnosis and treatment of superficial vein thrombosis. Hamostaseologie 33: 232-240. Di Nisio M, Wichers IM, Middeldorp S (2013) Treatment for superficial thrombophlebitis of the leg. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 4. [omicsonline.org]

The most appropriate treatment for patients who have high-risk SVT (thrombus location 9. [hematologyandoncology.net]

Treatment evd The aim of treatment is to alleviate local symptoms as well as to prevent thrombosis from spreading into the deep veins and embolization to lungs. [ebm-guidelines.com]

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What are the symptoms, treatment, and prognosis for phlebitis? Pain, swelling, redness, and tenderness are some common symptoms of phlebitis. [medicinenet.com]

Treatment and prognosis It is benign self-limiting condition, and the natural history is for the thrombosed vein to recanalize and for clinical symptoms to resolve gradually ( 6 weeks). [radiopaedia.org]

Prognosis The prognosis is usually good but the disease process will persist for three or four weeks or more. If it occurs in association with varicose veins there is a high risk of recurrence unless the vein is excised. [patient.info]

Phlebitis Prognosis Superficial phlebitis is rarely serious and usually responds to pain control, elevation, and warm compresses. [emedicinehealth.com]

Certain conditions have both an underlying etiology and multiple body system manifestations due to the underlying etiology. [icd10coded.com]

In this article we discuss the presentation of this condition in the chest wall, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. [omicsonline.org]

CONCLUSION Traumatic funicular phlebitis, resembling Mondor's disease, is a clinical entity which may give suggestive insight to the etiology of Mondor's disease itself. [unboundmedicine.com]

In some other studies, Mondor's disease with associated breast cancer without obvious etiology such as trauma or beast surgery have been reported. [12], [21], [22], [23] These studies documented a prevalence between 0 and 13%. [njcponline.com]

A few case reports in the literature report the onset of anterior chest pain 2 to 3 weeks prior to the appearance of the cordlike lesion. 3,4 The most common etiologies are local trauma including breast procedures (core biopsies and breast surgery), 5 [med.ucla.edu]

In this article we discuss the presentation of this condition in the chest wall, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. [omicsonline.org]

Superficial venous thrombosis and venous thromboembolism: a large, prospective epidemiologic study. Ann Intern Med 2010;152(4):218-24. «PMID: 20157136» PubMed Di Nisio M, Wichers IM, Middeldorp S. [ebm-guidelines.com]

Epidemiology This is a very common condition and, although figures are difficult to find, it seems to be more common in those aged over 60. [patient.info]

[…] occur as a result of excision of axillary nodes after gel silicone breast implant rupture. [11] It may also be a complication of ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy. [12] Trauma from breast augmentation was described as a predisposing factor. [13] Epidemiology [emedicine.medscape.com]

It is seldom diagnosed, and its etiology and epidemiology are speculative. However, numerous predisposing factors including breast cancer have been postulated. In Nigerian literature, only two cases have been documented to the best of our knowledge. [njcponline.com]

Pathophysiology The pathophysiology has been explained as pressure on the vein with stagnation of blood or as direct trauma to the vein itself. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Some authors divide the pathophysiological process into four discrete stages: i) Thrombus formation, thrombus organization, partial re canalization, and re canalized vein with fibrous wall [ 3 - 5 ]. ii) The most common venous vessels involved in the [omicsonline.org]

Despite differences in the primary source of infection and location of STP, we postulate that a common pathophysiologic sequence could explain the events in this group of patients (Fig. 2 ). [benthamopen.com]

Prevention To prevent phlebitis, people should eat a high-fiber, heart-healthy diet and engage in regular physical exercises such as walking, bicycling, or running. [encyclopedia.com]

C an phlebitis be prevented? Simple measures can be taken to prevent phlebitis, although, sometimes it cannot be avoided. [ipcphysicaltherapy.com]

Prevention Prevention of thrombophlebitis includes: active lifestyle; control of body weight; avoidance of dehydration; limiting long-term static loads. [medicalj-center.info]

Prevention of Thrombophlebitis Some cases of thrombophlebitis can be prevented by simply eliminating as much of the risk factors as possible. For example, if you quit smoking, it reduces your risk of thrombophlebitis. [healthpages.org]

For some people, taking long-term warfarin therapy may be necessary to prevent new blood clots from forming. [chealth.canoe.com]