Bilateral adrenal vein thrombosis
Bilateral adrenal gland enlargement in the setting of acute pain in pregnancy is consistent with either hemorrhage or thrombosis.
In this case, pregnancy did not allow multiphased CT; hence, non-contrast CT was not performed.
However, several clinical and imaging clues facilitated the confident diagnosis of bilateral adrenal thrombosis:
- a past history of 3 miscarriages suspicious for an underlying thrombophilic disease, associated with current pregnancy at 27WG.
- adrenals density was 20HU on average after contrast media administration.
- partial thrombi in the IVC, one closely related to the anatomical junction with the right adrenal gland.