BACKGROUND Low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs) are now standard therapy for the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). No published trials have compared LMWHs, and few studies have examined outpatient therapy for PE. Only tinzaparin sodium has demonstrated superiority to unfractionated heparin in a clinical trial. METHODS We compared 2 LMWH products, tinzaparin...

Dear Sirs, As a health economist, I read with interest the article by Mahan et al. which calculates the monetary burden of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) in the absence of pulmonary embolism (PE) (1). Mahan et al. multiply numbers of incident and recurrent DVT cases by average costs per incident or recurrent case. That approach requires estimates of incidence and recurrence derived from population-...

BACKGROUND Eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EG) is rare and is characterized by recurrent eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract and chronic diarrhea. In this report we present a case of EG with acute pancreatitis and deep vein thrombosis (DVT). CASE PRESENTATION A 30 years old male was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of epigastric pain, vomitting and swelling of hi...

BACKGROUND Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism are common after stroke. In small trials of patients undergoing surgery, graduated compression stockings (GCS) reduce the risk of DVT. National stroke guidelines extrapolating from these trials recommend their use in patients with stroke despite insufficient evidence. We assessed the effectiveness of thigh-length GCS to reduce DVT aft...

UNLABELLED A 71-year-old woman with severe right lower leg pain, edema and erythema was presented to the Emergency Department and was found to have an extensive deep vein thrombosis (DVT) confirmed by ultrasound. She underwent an extensive evaluation due to her prior history of malignancy and new hypercoagulable state, but no evidence of recurrent disease was detected. Further investigation rev...

BACKGROUND Surveillance of venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) is necessary for improving patient safety in acute care hospitals, but current detection methods are inaccurate and inefficient. With the growing availability of clinical narratives in an electronic format, automated surveillance using natural language processing (NLP) techniques may represent a better method. OBJECTIVE We assessed the...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES We prospectively measured change in quality of life (QOL) during the 2 years after a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and evaluated determinants of QOL, including development of the post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS). PATIENTS/METHODS Consecutive patients with acute DVT were recruited from 2001 to 2004 at eight hospitals in Canada. At study visits at baseline, and 1, ...

INTRODUCTION Although lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common complication after an acute stroke, there is little local data documenting this condition in stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency and risk factors of DVT in ischaemic stroke patients admitted to a rehabilitation unit. METHODS This was a prospective observ...

BACKGROUND The definition of gastrocneumus and soleus deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical significance of muscular deep-vein thrombosis after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS This study consisted of 359 consecutive patients undergoing TKA evaluated for DVT by ascending venography. Venographies were performed 5 to 7 day...

During a 22-month period, 555 consecutive patients at seven hospitals in the western part of Sweden with an acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) not involving the iliac vein and not having pulmonary embolism were included in a study testing the efficacy of implementing out-patient treatment. For all patients with a confirmed diagnosis of acute DVT, a folder was used that contained two checklists wi...