Agenesis of the renal segment of inferior vena cava associated with venous stasis

Int Angiol. 2010 Aug;29(4):385-8.

Abstract

Congenital anomalies of the inferior vena cava is an extremely rare vascular anomaly with controversial pathogenesis. Anomalies of the inferior vena cava (IVC) are present in 0.3% to 0.5% of otherwise healthy individual and in 0.6% to 2% of patients with other cardiovascular defects. The phenomenon of absence of the IVC has been described in a variety of ways such as absence, agenesis, anomalous, and interruption of a particular segment ([infra] hepatic, prerenal, renal, or infrarenal) of the IVC. We describe a 42-year-old man with chronic venous insufficiency, without DVT, caused by congenital absence of renal segment of the IVC.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cardiovascular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Chronic Disease
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Diosmin / therapeutic use
  • Exercise Therapy
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Phlebography / methods
  • Stockings, Compression
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / abnormalities*
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / diagnostic imaging
  • Venous Insufficiency / diagnosis
  • Venous Insufficiency / etiology*
  • Venous Insufficiency / therapy

Substances

  • Cardiovascular Agents
  • Diosmin