She contracted septic thrombophlebitis, popularly known as " milk leg " an infection of a blood clot in a vein, which eventually led to an amputation.
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Treatment involves the use of pentavalent antimonial compounds, which are highly toxic ( common side effects include thrombophlebitis, pancreatitis, cardiotoxicity and hepatotoxicity ) and not very effective.
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In debilitated or immunocompromised patients, or if introduced intravenously, candidiasis may become a systemic disease producing abscess, thrombophlebitis, endocarditis, or infections of the eyes or other organs.
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It may be necessary to do both a bone scan and a venogram to differentiate between heterotopic ossification and thrombophlebitis, and it is even possible that both could be present simultaneously.
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Where pseudothrombophlebitis and thrombophlebitis present as differential diagnoses, DVT is excluded by the absence of a deep vein thrombosis, and the presence of a popliteal cyst is suggestive of pseudothrombophlebitis.
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The range of clinical diseases includes pneumonia, thrombophlebitis, urinary tract infection, cholecystitis, diarrhea, upper respiratory tract infection, wound infection, osteomyelitis, meningitis, and bacteremia and septicemia.
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Pseudothrombophlebitis is clinically indistinguishable from a true thrombophlebitis such as deep vein thrombosis; the symptoms and history are similar and these conditions cannot be distinguished by clinical examination without radiological or arthroscopic imaging.
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In heterotopic ossification, the swelling tends to be more proximal and localized, with little or no foot / ankle edema, whereas in thrombophlebitis the swelling is usually more uniform throughout the leg.
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Anticoagulation for patients with lower extremity superficial thrombophlebitis at increased risk for thromboembolism ( affected venous segment of e " 5 cm, in proximity to deep venous system, positive medical risk factors ).
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In 1938, Wright, then a professor of clinical medicine at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School of Columbia University, was gravely ill for months because of thrombophlebitis, which involves the formation of a blood clot.
