Venous Imaging For Acute DVT - UK HealthCare … Imaging...•We suck at finding DVT on exam •No...
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Venous Imaging For Acute DVT
Michael Blaivas, MD, FACEP, FAIUM
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
AIUM, Third Vice President
President, Society for Ultrasound Medical Education
Past Chair, ACEP Ultrasound Section
Past President, WINFOCUS
Editor, Critical Ultrasound Journal
Sub-specialty Editor, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
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Conflicts of Interest
• None relevant to this
lecture
• Sonosim
• Verathon
• Philips
• PocketSonics
• Headsense
• Orcasonics
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Objectives
• Discuss justification for point
of care approach
– Selection of vessels
• Best approach
• Scanning technique
• Normal anatomy
• Appearance of pathology
• Distinction between acute and
chronic DVT
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Lower Extremity Thrombosis
• 260,000 cases per year
• Cause at least 50,000 deaths per year
• Imperative to diagnose DVT and prevent PE
• Most patients who die of PE die with in 30 minutes of having one
• Many ICU deaths found to have PE at autopsy
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Clinician’s Dilemma
• What can clinicians do?
• Clinical diagnosis unreliable
• We suck at finding DVT on exam
• No better than 50% in some studies
• Can use prediction rules that rank risks
– Improve results but still cannot rely upon
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Clinician’s Dilemma
• In the real world may not be able to get vascular study at night or on weekend
• Why not just treat everyone? – Expensive
– Patients sit on heparin, study could be false negative the next day
• How about low molecular weight heparin risks?
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Jolly et al. 1996
• Two attending EPs trained by vascular lab
• EPs had hands on training
• Each proctored for 25 to 30 scans
• No mention of scan time but average is about 37 minutes
• A great step forward for clinician performed ultrasound but not practical
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Standard Approach
• Radiology technologist scans entire leg
• Looks at every inch of vein
– Blood flow
– Compressibility of vein
– Variations in blood flow with breathing and leg compression
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Simplified Approach
• Look at common femoral vein
• Junction of femoral, deep femoral and superficial femoral veins
• Popliteal vein behind the knee
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Simplified Approach
• Rationale behind cutting ultrasound corners
• LE DVT locations
– Rare to find DVTs in isolated vein segments
– This has been well studied
– As DVTs form in large veins they tend to propagate
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What About Calf DVT?
• Not all vascular labs check for them now
– Why?
– Accuracy may be as low as 30-40%
– Some centers do not treat for calf DVTs
• This is why patients scanned for a DVT need a repeat examination if the first one is negative
• 20% of calf DVTs will propagate proximally
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What About Calf DVT?
• Not all vascular labs check for them now
– Why?
– Accuracy may be as low as 30-40%
– Some centers do not treat for calf DVTs
• This is why patients scanned for a DVT need a repeat examination if the first one is negative
• 20% of calf DVTs will propagate proximally
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Blaivas et al.
• 112 patients enrolled
• Proximal DVTs diagnosed in 34 patients
• ED and Radiology agreed in 110 out of 112
• One false positive
• Another “false positive” - but venogram dx DVT
• Two calf DVTs found by radiology without proximal DVT
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Blaivas et al.
• Median time for examination 3 minutes 28 seconds (95% CI, 2:45 to 4:02; IQR 3:08)
• High correlation between ED and Radiology results; % agreement 98% (95% CI 95.4% to 100%), Kappa coefficient of agreement K = .9
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Other Findings
• Augmentation and blood flow evaluation was not useful
• Doppler best for finding vascular structures in ultrasonographically challenged
• 3 saphenous vein thrombi found
• 6 Baker’s cysts found
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Theodoro et al.
• Prospective single blinded study
• 156 patients
• Had radiology US 24/7
• Ordered radiology US, then did our own
• Compared time to disposition and results
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Theodoro et al.
• 34 (22%) patients with DVT
• Triage to dispo for EM US 95 minutes
• Triage to dispo for rad US 220 minutes
• Difference of 125 minutes, P<0.0001
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Bernardi et al.
• Bernardi E, Camporese G, Büller HR, Siragusa S, Imberti D, Berchio A, Ghirarduzzi A, Verlato F, Anastasio R, Prati C, Piccioli A, Pesavento R, Bova C, Maltempi P, Zanatta N, Cogo A, Cappelli R, Bucherini E,
Cuppini S, Noventa F, Prandoni P; Erasmus Study Group. Serial 2-point ultrasonography plus D-dimer vs whole-leg color-coded Doppler ultrasonography for diagnosing suspected symptomatic deep vein thrombosis: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2008; 300(14):1653-9.
• A prospective, randomized, multicenter study of consecutive symptomatic outpatients (n = 2465)
• Either 2-point (n = 1045) or whole-leg (n = 1053) ultrasonography
• The 2 diagnostic strategies are equivalent
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So How Do We Get Started?
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Common Femoral Vein Superficial Femoral
Deep Femoral Vein
All of these are deep veins!!!
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Femoral Vein Femoral Artery
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Femoral Vein
Femoral Artery
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Common Femoral Vein Superficial Femoral
Deep Femoral Vein
All of these are deep veins!!!
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Femoral Artery
Femoral Vein
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Femoral Artery
Femoral Vein
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Femoral Artery
Clot
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Freely Floating Thrombus
• Thrombus that is free floating is at a very high risk for embolization
• Should view in longitudinal axis and avoid further compression after discovery
• Anticoagulate quickly and monitor patient
• Not a good patient to send home on low molecular weight heparin
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Pelvic Vein DVT
• Less common but not rare
• Difficult when isolated (not in femoral or distal)
• Can image directly in some patients
• Success decreases as soft tissue burden increases
• Must rely on respiratory variation in femoral vein to rule out pelvic DVT
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Upper Extremity DVT
• Thought to be very rare, 2%
– Tilney ML et al, Arch Surg. 1970; 101:792-6.
• Not a threat? None embolized?
• Now 18% of all DVTs
– Mustafa S et al. Chest. 2003; 123:1953-6.
• Up to 9% of UE DVTs may embolize
– Becker DM et al. Arch Intern Med. 1991; 151:1934-43.
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Upper Extremity DVT
• Addition of some difficult imaging, but mostly quite easy
• Areas where compression is not possible
• Areas where visualization is not possible
• Where no compression is possible have to use color and pulse wave Doppler
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Interrogate the Subclavian with Doppler
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Interrogate the Subclavian with Doppler
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Upper Extremity DVT
Brachial Vein Clot is easily detected
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Inferior Vena Cava
• Don’t forget to look at the IVC
• Often overlooked
• We are used to poor IVC imaging due to our patient population
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Inferior Vena Cava
• Direct visualization of thrombus is possible
• Clinches diagnosis, perhaps even more than LE DVT
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Inferior Vena Cava
• Direct visualization of thrombus is possible
• Clinches diagnosis, perhaps even more than LE DVT
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IVC Filter Safe?
• Does Greenfield filter get you off the hook?
• Not really, filter can have thrombus at it and growing past it
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Inferior Vena Cava
• Even in the presence of a IVC filter propagation can occur and is worth evaluating for
• IVC may be seen with enough detail
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Pitfalls
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Node As DVT
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Not Pressing Hard Enough
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Femoral Vein
Femoral Artery
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Not Pressing Hard Enough
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Superficial Thrombosis
• Can be confusing clinically and sonographically
• Keep your anatomy in mind as well as the depth on the screen
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Superficial Thrombosis
• Sometimes see physiology at work
• Blood sludging and local inflammation
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Superficial Thrombosis
• Still helpful to compress
• Image in short and long axis if confusing
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Chronic DVT
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Chronic DVT?
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Isolated DVT?
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Suspected Pelvic DVT?
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Summary
• Ultrasound is a great bedside tool
• LE DVT
• UE DVT
• Pelvic DVT
• QUESTIONS?