Due to the continued risk of recurrence after a first episode proximal deep vein thrombosis (DVT) lower extremities and/ or pulmonary embolism (PE) occurring without major transient factors, long-term use anticoagulants is indicated in many cases. One attractive way individualize duration treatment these cases appears be assessment blood D-dimer concentration. However, according prospective stu...

A relation is transitive if and only if from the fact that A has a relation to B, and B has a relation C, it necessarily follows that A also has a relation to C. As a relation fulfilling this requirement, consider simultaneity understood as two events occurring at the same time and only at the same time (thus this is not a case of mere partial temporal overlap): If A and B share all the same te...

A coronal fracture of a femoral condyle (Hoffa fracture) is an unusual injury and there are only a handful of reports discussing it. We report a case of a 52-year-old worker who fell from a height, suffering lower limb injuries, including a Hoffa fracture with comminution, and had problems with malunion during the postoperative period. Clinicians should be aware that rehabilitation programmes n...