Clinical management of Nutcracker's syndrome during pregnancy

Abstract

The pregnancy of patients with Nutcracker syndrome, undergone vascular stent placement, should be considered high risk gestation and should be managed with low molecular weight heparin and serial renal vein flow Doppler studies.

Nutcracker syndrome: how are we cracking the nuts and whose nuts are we cracking?

“…For this reason, experts in the field strongly recommend the maintenance of antiplatelet agents or anticoagulation following endovascular treatment of Nutcracker syndrome ( 15 ). But considering that we are treating young patients, mainly women with 20-40 years, future pregnancies can become risky ( 16 ) and lifetime anticoagulation can bring additional concerns.…”