Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT)
Duplex scan in patients with clinical suspicion of deep venous thrombosis
... symptomatic deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is well established using duplex scanning, with a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 98% for proximal DVT, and 94% sensitivity and 75% specificity for ...
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Deep Venous Thrombosis in Children With Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Femoral Central Venous Catheters
... Conclusions. Femoral CVC placement is infrequently needed in pediatric DKA patients but can be associated with DVT. Femoral CVCs should be avoided in DKA patients or removed as soon as possible. DVT prophy- laxis should ...
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Deep Venous Thrombosis: Commonly Affected Veins in the Lower Limbs
... [13] De Maeseneer, M.G.R., Bochanen, N., van Rooijen, G. and Neglén, P. (2016) Analy- sis of 1,338 Patients with Acute Lower Limb Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) Supports the Inadequacy of the Term ...
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Literature Review on Prophylaxis of Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
... Background: Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) and subsequent Pulmonary Embolism (PE) are one of the most eminent causes of preventable deaths in nosocomial ...for deep venous ...
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Predicting Deep Venous Thrombosis Using Binary Decision Trees
... Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of a thrombus (blood clot) in a deep vein in the body, typically in a lower leg or thigh. Figure 1 (a) shows a DVT patient with a painful and ...
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Presence of Residual Venous Thrombus at Warfarin Withdrawal: a Predictor for Recurrence after a First Episode of Symptomatic Provoked Proximal Deep Venous Thrombosis in Thai Population?
... proximal deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the leg that had been provoked by surgery or by nonsurgical transient risk factors is high during the first 3 months, the American College of Chest Physicians ...
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A Possible Association of Diindolylmethane with Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis
... 3,3 -Diindolylmethane (DIM), a derivative of indole-3- carbinol found in plant products, has unclear effects on the estrogen and androgen physiology of humans. Most research has focused on breast, cervical, and ...
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PREVALENCE OF DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT TUMOR
... of deep venous thrombosis was up to ...cause venous distension, postoperative long bed rest period may affect the hemodynamics, and the trauma resulted from surgery may aggravate the blood ...
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Value of serial platelet indices measurements for the prediction of pulmonary embolism in patients with deep venous thrombosis
... Background: To date, no validated biomarkers with high sensitivity and specificity have been established for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with deep venous thrombosis (DVT). There ...
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Deep Venous Thrombosis Complicating Myelomeningocele: Report of Three Cases
... Even with recent head or spinal cord injury, low-dose heparmn (5000 U subcutaneously every 12 hours) has been safely used to effectively decrease the incidence of deep venous thrombosis [r] ...
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The incidence of venous thromboembolism and practice of deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis in hospitalized cirrhotic patients
... of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis in cirrhotic patients may not be a standard practice, and the use of DVT prophylaxis in this patient population is expected to be ...
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Review Article Deep venous thrombosis: a literature review
... Patients with DVT usually manifest as local pain, limb edema and swelling, although the clinical manifestations of DVT vary consider- ably between patients and can be symptomatic or asymptomatic, bilateral or unilateral, ...
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Observations of the natural history and long term outcomes of deep venous thrombosis
... the venous insertion site, throbmosis o f the inferior vena cave, new ipsilateral DVT and occasionally tears in the inferior vena cave (Blebea et al 1999; McCollum et al 1987; Dardik et al ...cava ...
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Radiolabeled tirofiban – a potential radiopharmaceutical for detection of deep venous thrombosis
... of deep venous throm- bosis (DVT) with more desirable properties compared to other platelet aggregation inhibitors, eg, monoclonal antibodies (abciximab) and peptides containing Arg–Gly–Asp (RGD) or ...
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An instrument for measuring health-related quality of life in patients with Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT): development and validation of Deep Venous Thrombosis Quality of Life (DVTQOL) questionnaire
... chronic venous disorders, the VEINES-QOL questionnaire[12], and Mathias and colleagues' [13] measure for acute ili- ofemoral deep venous thromboses, have been ...
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Prospective study of assessing the risk for development of deep venous thrombosis in surgical patients using adapted caprini scoring system
... phlegmasia cerulea dolens and impending venous gangrene. If the patient has phlegmasia cerulea dolens, a fasciotomy of the calf compartments is first performed. In iliofemoral DVT, a longitudinal venotomy is made ...
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Uterine Fibromyoma and Intravascular Thrombosis—Eight Cases
... of venous thrombosis com- pared with those taking second generation oral contraceptives ...of venous thromboemblolism in carriers of factor V Leiden mutation by ...of venous thromboembolism to ...
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Risk of venous thromboembolic disease and adequacy of prophylaxis in hospitalized patients in Argentina: a multicentric cross-sectional study
... Venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Approximately 2 million cases of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and 200,000 deaths from pulmonary embolism ...
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Hospitalization for pulmonary embolism associated with antecedent testosterone or estrogen therapy in patients found to have familial and acquired thrombophilia
... philia, venous thromboembolism (VTE), deep venous thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary emboli (PE), ocular throm- bosis, and osteonecrosis may occur [1 – ...unprovoked venous thrombotic events ...
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Review Article The prevalence of venous thromboembolism in patients with prophylactic low molecular weight heparin and/or mechanical measures after degenerative lumbar surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Abstract: Purpose: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) includes deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embo- lism (PE). Consensus had yet to be reached on the prevention for thromboembolic events ...
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