Acute inferior vena cava thrombosis in a patient with membranous nephropathy treated by rt-PA lysis.

Key words: inferior vena cava thrombosis; nephrotic (Figure 1). This was confirmed by transoesophagealsyndrome; membranous nephropathy; intrathrombic echocardiography.rt-PA lysis On advice from a haematologist, treatment wasstarted with streptokinase 600000 units i.v. in 30 minfollowed by 100000 units/h for 72 h. This was followedby daily infusions of antithrombin III and continuous