Reduction mammoplasty as a treatment for symptomatic central venous stenosis.
- Author:
Denise Seok Fun FOK
1
;
Janna JOETHY
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Breast; Edema; Axillary vein; Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis
- MeSH: Axillary Vein; Breast; Constriction, Pathologic*; Diagnosis, Differential; Edema; Female; Heart Failure; Humans; Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms; Lymphedema; Mammaplasty*; Mastitis; Renal Dialysis; Upper Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis
- From:Archives of Plastic Surgery 2018;45(2):171-176
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Central venous stenosis is a rare cause of unilateral breast edema occurring in hemodialysis patients that needs to be differentiated from other differential diagnoses, including, but not limited to, inflammatory breast carcinoma, mastitis, lymphedema, and congestive heart failure. All reports of similar cases in the available literature have described improvement or resolution of the edema after treatment. Herein, we report and discuss the pathophysiology of breast edema formation in a patient who presented with massive left-sided breast edema 7 years after being diagnosed with central venous stenosis. Medical and minimally invasive therapy had not been successful, so she underwent reduction mammoplasty to relieve the symptoms.
