A 72 year old woman, who had been diagnosed as having recurrent deep vein thrombosis six weeks earlier, attends the practice’s phlebotomy clinic for an international normalised ratio (INR) check. Her INR is greater than 8.0 (target INR range: 2.0-3.0). During the consultation, you look through her previous INR readings and notice they have been supra-therapeutic over the past two weeks despite ...

Accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger When deep vein thrombosis is above or in a popliteal vein it is defined as a proximal deep vein thrombosis. Such thrombi have a high tendency to migrate toward the pulmonary circulation and generate an acute pulmonary embolism. Subsequently, these two entities, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, should be considered part of the same di...

The incidence of venous thromboembolism after elective knee surgery has previously been studied almost exclusively in patients receiving total knee replacements, in whom the risk of a deep vein thrombosis is approximately 60%. We report the results of ipsilateral ascending venography in 312 patients undergoing a wide variety of elective knee operations under tourniquet ischaemia, none of whom r...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis of leg is very common in clinical practice. Not infrequently a range of pathologies are diagnosed after excluding a thrombosis, often after a period of anticoagulation. CASE PRESENTATION This is a report of three patients who presented with a painful swollen leg and were initially treated as a deep vein thrombosis or a baker's cyst, but later d...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pharmacomechanical thrombectomy performed by using a rotational thrombectomy device for the treatment of deep vein thrombosis. METHODS Between April 2012 and November 2014, 17 patients with acute deep vein thrombosis underwent pharmacomechanical thrombolysis. The thrombectomy device was used in a single-session te...

a 33-year-old female-a known case of behcet's disease- was admitted to the hospital due to fever, dyspnea and hemoptysis. one week before admission, she had developed right leg swelling. the history suggested either deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and pulmonary emboli or pulmonary artery vasculitis. diagnostic tests were requested and the necessary treatment was started accordingly

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and determine the characteristic features of venous thromboembolism in the Hong Kong Chinese population. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Data were collected during a period of four years (1997-2000). Patients with duplex doppler ultrasonography or venography-documented venous thromboembolism and new...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the risk of ipsilateral versus contralateral recurrent deep vein thrombosis in the leg. DESIGN An open prospective long term follow-up multicentre trial. Patients were followed by frequent outpatient visits at each centre during the first 12 months after inclusion and thereafter annually. SETTING Sixteen hospitals in central Sweden. SUBJECTS A total of 790 consec...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood thrombus forms and travels from a vein in the body to an artery in the lung. Thrombi often develop in one of the deep veins of the legs, thighs, or pelvis, a condition known as deep vein thrombosis. In this report, we describe a rare instance of a patient who developed deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism secondary to urinary retention, a...