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ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2025

Case Report: Neuropsychiatric improvement after treatment of pelvic venous disorder in a multisyndromic patient.

Steven J Smith, Michael J Sichlau, Peter C Rowe, Dacre R T Knight, Brenda Chen, B Holly Smith, Isabel C Sichlau

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Article in Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Steven J SmithDepartment of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Vascular and Interventional Professionals, LLC, Hinsdale, IL, United States.
Michael J SichlauDepartment of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Vascular and Interventional Professionals, LLC, Hinsdale, IL, United States.
Peter C RoweDepartment of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Dacre R T KnightDepartment of General Internal Medicine, The Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, United States.
Brenda ChenCollege of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University California, Vallejo, CA, United States.
B Holly SmithCenter for Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
Isabel C SichlauDepartment of Psychology, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

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Abstract

Objective: Venous Origin Chronic Pelvic Pain (VO-CPP) causes pelvic pain in women, and is associated with other dysautonomia syndromes such as postural orthostasis and tachycardia syndrome (POTS), chronic fatigue, interstitial cystitis, and fibromyalgia. These conditions have been shown to have associations with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, migraine headache, irritable bowel syndrome, and brain fog. In this study, a multisyndromic patient was treated for VO-CPP. Pelvic pain, dysautonomia, and neuropsychiatric scores were tracked in this patient. Methods: In a multisyndromic patient with VO-CPP, abnormal venous pooling was treated with endovascular stenting and sclerotherapy. Neuropsychiatric testing was performed before and after intervention. Results: Along with improvement in scores for pelvic pain, POTS, interstitial cystitis, and migraines, repeat neuropsychiatric testing showed improvement in Memory Functioning Recall and Depression Inventory. The patient's previous disability status was removed. Conclusions: The patient's response to endovascular treatment supports a unifying concept of diminished venous return as a contributor to multiple syndromes that may be linked to a single phenotype.

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academic self-conceptallostatic overloadcerebral blood flowchronic pelvic painmedical imagingmental health outcomes

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