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63-year-old female presents
with gross hematuria.
Ryan Joyce, MD
Charan K Singh, MBBS.
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Circumaortic
left renal vein
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Superior renal vein, crosses anterior to aorta (red arrows)
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Superior renal vein, crosses anterior to aorta (red arrows)
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Superior renal vein, crosses anterior to aorta (red arrows)
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Superior renal vein, crosses anterior to aorta (red arrows)
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Superior renal vein, crosses anterior to aorta (red arrows)
Inferior renal vein, crosses posterior to aorta (yellow arrows)
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Superior renal vein, crosses anterior to aorta (red arrows)
Inferior renal vein, crosses posterior to aorta (yellow arrows)
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Inferior renal vein, crosses posterior to aorta (yellow arrows)
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Inferior renal vein, crosses posterior to aorta (yellow arrows)
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Inferior renal vein, crosses posterior to aorta (yellow arrows)
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IVC (blue arrow)
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Circumaortic left renal vein
Anatomic variant with 2 left renal veins
• Typical orientation of superior left renal vein crossing
anterior to aorta and inferior left renal vein crossing
posterior to aorta.
– Superior renal vein typically joined by left adrenal vein.
– Inferior renal vein typically joined by left gonadal vein.
• Retroaortic vein can be intermittently compressed:
– Can rarely result in gross hematuria.
– Also rarely associated with renal vascular hypertension.
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Circumaortic left renal vein
• Incidence estimated 2-9%.
• Represents persistence of the dorsal limb
of the embryonic left renal vein and dorsal
arch of the renal collar.
• The major clinical significance of this
anomaly is preoperative planning prior to
nephrectomy, renal vein sampling, and
varicocele embolization.
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Circumaortic left renal vein
A careful search for other possible causes of
hematuria should be performed before
attributing hematuria to a circumaortic left
renal vein. In this particular case, there were
no urinary tract calculi on either side, no
bladder abnormality, and no renal mass to
suggest an alternative etiology of hematuria.
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References
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2. Koc Z et al: Venous variants and anomalies on routine
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3. Srivastava A et al: Inferior vena cava in urology:
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