Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Entrapment of the left renal vein (LRV) between the abdominal aorta (AA) and the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) was first described in 1950 by El Sadr and Mina and given the name nutcracker syndrome (NS) by De Schepper and Chait
Nutcracker syndrome can exist even in entrapped non-distended LRV and normal flow can exist in distended LRV
Passage of the renal vein in the fork formed by the aorta and SMA is a normal anatomical finding, it is not known why compression of the vein occurs in only a few patients
Summary
Entrapment of the left renal vein (LRV) between the abdominal aorta (AA) and the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) was first described in 1950 by El Sadr and Mina and given the name nutcracker syndrome (NS) by De Schepper and Chait. These two cases highlight a rare cause of haematuria viz. Due to its relative rarity and non availability of advanced imaging, it is rarely diagnosed and is underreported in developing countries
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