Acute aortic intraluminal thrombus with embolisation and lower-limb ischaemia following intravenous iron sucrose infusion reaction

A woman in her 50s developed iron deficiency anaemia. Her medical history included hypertension, asthma and remote postpartum pulmonary embolism. There was a strong family history of atherosclerosis. After receiving intravenous iron sucrose (500 mg), she developed vomiting and large-volume diarrhoea, followed by diaphoresis, back pain, haemoconcentration (haematocrit increase, 0.242 to 0.326), leucocytosis and platelet count decline. Myocardial …