A Rare Case of Splenic Artery Thrombosis Provoked By Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Requiring Splenectomy

Splenic artery thrombosis is estimated to occur in only 0.016% of hospital admissions. Hormonal contraception is known to have hypercoagulable side effects, but splenic artery thrombosis (SAT) followed by functional autosplenectomy is a very rare side effect. We report a case of a 48-year-old female...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) Jg. 15; H. 1; S. e33880
Hauptverfasser:	Haider, Asad A, Bassi, Raghav, Prakash, Pranav, Hussein, Abdullahi, Alzghoul, Hamza, Bilal, Muhammad, Oyetoran, Anuoluwa, Iyer, Uma G
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	United States Springer Nature B.V 17.01.2023 Cureus
Schlagworte:	Abdomen Anticoagulants Birth control Blood clots Blood diseases Cardiac arrhythmia Case reports Cysts Family medical history Gastroenterology Hematology Infections Internal medicine Medical imaging Nausea Obstetrics/Gynecology Pain Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Spleen Surgical outcomes Thrombosis Tomography Vascular surgery Veins & arteries Vomiting spleen thrombosis depo-provera medication side-effects spleen infarction therapeutic anticoagulation
ISSN:	2168-8184, 2168-8184
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