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View larger version (45K):   A previously healthy 34-year-old woman, gravida 7, para 5, presented on postpartum day 14 with severe low back pain, chest pain, dyspnea, and substantial swelling of both legs after an uneventful cesarean section, performed with combined spinal–epidural anesthesia. During that period she was bedridden. Examination of the pelvis and legs with Doppler ultrasonography revealed bilateral deep venous thrombosis extending to the iliac veins. A computed tomographic (CT) scan of the abdomen and pelvis showed the thrombus extending through the inferior vena cava and both ovarian veins (Panel A, arrowheads). A CT scan of the chest showed pulmonary embolism in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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