Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis (SMVT) often presents with abdominal pain out of proportion to physical exam findings but can also be asymptomatic. If left untreated, the cause bowel ischemia, multisystem organ failure, and eventually death. Therefore, while rare, superior should considered as a differential diagnosis especially in cases inflammation hypercoagulability. Since SMVT present p...

BACKGROUND There has been no effective method to monitor the changes of blood coagulation after thromboprophylaxis for elective arthroplasty patients. The objective of this study is to assess the coagulation status of patients undergoing arthroplasty with thromboelastograph (TEG). METHODS Ninety patients undergoing primary elective unilateral arthroplasty were investigated. Thromboprophylaxis...

BACKGROUND The hypercoagulable state associated with cancer imparts considerable risk for venous thromboembolism. Surgical resection of malignancies should theoretically reverse tumor-induced hypercoagulability. However, coagulation changes in cancer patients postresection have not been described thoroughly. Conventional coagulation tests are unable to detect hypercoagulable states. In contrast...

Aim. To raise the awareness of a hypercoagulability state as it is often associated with the different types of malignancies. Venous thromboembolism is a frequent complication in these patients, and usually it happens after the diagnosis of cancer is confirmed. However, hypercoagulability disorders presenting as the first symptoms or signs in the cancer patients have rarely been reported. Furth...

Numerous naturalistic, experimental, and mechanistic studies strongly support the notion that-as part of fight-or-flight response-hemostatic responses to acute psychosocial stress result in net hypercoagulability, which would protect a healthy organism from bleeding in case of injury. Sociodemographic factors, mental states, and comorbidities are important modulators of the acute prothrombotic ...

The infusion of normal human serum into animals engenders a transient period of hypercoagulability characterized by profound shortening of the whole blood clotting time in both glass and silicone-coated tubes (2). During this period of hypercoagulability, blood trapped in isolated venous segments rapidly coagulates, forming a thrombotic cast of the isolated venous segment (3). In previous exper...

Lung transplant patients have an increased risk of pulmonary embolism which is often associated with hypercoagulability disorders. We present a case of sudden death resulting from pulmonary intravascular platelet thromboembolism following a single-lung transplant.