An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Pain in a Middle-Aged Female: The Nutcracker Syndrome

Cureus. 2022 Oct 26;14(10):e30696. doi: 10.7759/cureus.30696. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Abstract

A middle-aged female presented with lower abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting and was admitted to the acute hospital. She was thoroughly investigated and treated presumably as having a urinary tract infection. However, she was admitted again shortly after discharge with persistent symptoms. A careful evaluation and review were done, and she was diagnosed with nutcracker syndrome based on the clinical assessment, computed tomography (CT), and ultrasound (US) findings.

Keywords: left renal vein compression; lower abdominal pain; non specific abdominal pain; recurrent abdominal pain; renal nutcracker syndrome.

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