Among young, otherwise healthy adults with unprovoked deep vein thrombosis (DVT), uncommon causes like variation in the normal sequential development of inferior vena cava (IVC), must be explored. Anomalous IVC conditions are estimated to occur up 9% general population, rarest anomaly being agenesis at 0.0005% - 1% population prevalence. DVTs more likely develop this due venous stasis from decr...

OBJECTIVE To screen indoor geriatric patients for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) risk, assess them for the presence of DVT with hand-held microdoppler (HHMD) and correlate DVT risk score with inpatient mortality. METHODS 111 patients (> or = 60 years) admitted for > or = 72 hours [51 patients from intensive care unit (ICU) and 60 patients from general medical wards (GMW)] over 15 months were in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of subcutaneous heparin for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) during acute phase in comparison to elastic stockings. METHODS The diagnosis of ICH was based on imaging (CT or MRI) and DVT was based on Doppler ultrasound. RESULTS A total of 458 patients were identified over a period of 5 year...

BACKGROUND Low-molecular-weight (LMW) heparins are safe and effective for out-of-hospital treatment of acute deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) in a clinical trial setting. We examined the efficacy, safety, and feasibility of home treatment with LMW heparin of consecutive eligible patients with acute DVT in a routine care setting. In addition, we report our experience with patient compliance, acceptanc...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of thrombophilic conditions in patients with acute and chronic portal vein thrombosis (PVT) and to compare it with those in patients suffering from deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after lower limb arthroplasty and in healthy subjects. METHODS Twenty-six patients with spontaneous PVT (20 chronic, 6 acute) with normal liver function and not receiving anticoagulants ...

BackgroundThe majority of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is caused by thrombus developed from leg veins. However, impact concomitant deep venous thrombosis (DVT) on clinical outcomes has not been fully evaluated in patients with PE.MethodsThe COMMAND VTE Registry a multicenter registry enrolling consecutive 3027 symptomatic thromboembolism (VTE) Japan. The current study population consisted 655 ...

Percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT) has been gaining acceptance as a preferred approach for the treatment of acute deep venous thrombosis (DVT). In addition to treating acute DVT and decreasing the risk of pulmonary embolism, it has been reported that direct extraction of the thrombus decreases the risk of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS), the economic impact of managing which is reported ...

BACKGROUND Acute infection increases the risk of arterial cardiovascular events, but effects on venous thromboembolic disease are less well established. Our aim was to investigate whether acute infections transiently increase the risk of venous thromboembolism. METHODS We used the self-controlled case-series method to study the risk of first deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (n=7278) and first pulmo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Data on medical complications after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are sparse. We assessed trends in the prevalence of urinary tract infection, pneumonia, sepsis, deep venous thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism, acute renal failure (ARF), and acute myocardial infarction after ICH in the United States. METHODS A total of 575 211 adult ICH cases were identified from the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE In patients with proven acute pulmonary embolism (PE), a systematic search for "residual" deep vein thrombosis (DVT) using venography or compression duplex ultrasonography (CDUS) of the lower limbs is negative in 20 to 50% of patients. We hypothesized that undetectable pelvic vein thrombosis (from the external iliac vein to the inferior vena cava) could account for a substantial...