A case of pulmonary embolism caused by compression of the vena cava by intra‐abdominal masses in autosomal polycystic kidney disease

Abstract

Abstract Dyspnea can have among other reasons pulmonological and cardiological causes. In cases with intra‐abdominal masses such as in severe autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, mechanical occlusion of the vena cava may result in pulmonary embolism.

Keywords

• acute medicine
• ADPKD
• autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
• emergency medicine
• nephrology
• pulmonary embolism