The Nutcracker Syndrome.

The Nutcracker Syndrome DOI: https://doi.org/10.3941/jrcr.v16i5.4339Keywords: Nutcracker syndrome, rare disease, hematuria, left renal vein compression, renal vein entrapmentAbstract Nutcracker syndrome (NCS) is a rare condition caused by the compression of the left renal vein between the abdominal aorta and the superior mesenteric artery. NCS may present with unexplained hematuria. This case report presents a 43-year-old healthy female without any complaints who had newly-detected hematuria in urinalysis during her annual examination. Her physical examination and the whole abdominal ultrasonography failed to explain the cause of hematuria. Further investigation with contrast-enhanced upper abdominal computed tomography revealed a NCS. In unexplained cases of asymptomatic hematuria NCS should be taken into account after excluding other preliminary diagnoses.Downloads Published 2022-05-31 Issue Section General Radiology License The publisher holds the copyright to the published articles and contents. However, the articles in this journal are open-access articles distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License, which permits reproduction and distribution, provided the original work is properly cited. The publisher and author have the right to use the text, images and other multimedia contents from the submitted work for further usage in affiliated programs. Commercial use and derivative works are not permitted, unless explicitly allowed by the publisher.