BACKGROUND Objective testing for DVT is crucial because clinical assessment alone is unreliable and the consequences of misdiagnosis are serious. This guideline focuses on the identification of optimal strategies for the diagnosis of DVT in ambulatory adults. METHODS The methods of this guideline follow those described in Methodology for the Development of Antithrombotic Therapy and Preventio...

The application of phenol to the femoral veins of anesthetized dogs resulted in an occluding thrombus in 24 of 25 veins at 1 week. Serial venography and eventual histology showed that these veins remained occluded over a 5-week observation period, the thrombi undergoing organization. Therapeutic defibrination was achieved with administration of an enzyme from venom of the pit viper (Arvin). Arv...

Background: The present study aimed to compare the accuracy between conventional MRV with 2D Time of Flight sequence versus contrast enhanced in Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.Materials and methods: This was a hospital based ambispective that conducted from Jan 2021 Jun 2022 Department Radiodiagnosis Mahatma Gandhi Medical College Research Institute (MGMCRI), Pondicherry after obtaining appro...

BACKGROUND Treatment of cerebral sinus thrombosis with thrombolytics has been reported in cases with a deteriorating clinical course despite anticoagulant therapy. The rationale of this treatment is to promote rapid recanalisation of the occluded sinus. OBJECTIVES To review the available evidence on the efficacy and safety of thrombolysis in confirmed cerebral sinus thrombosis. SEARCH STRAT...

Case Report A 30-year-old woman was admitted with symptomatic bradycardia 2 weeks after undergoing a third ablation procedure for inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) in another centre. A permanent pacemaker was implanted. She re-presented 3 days later with swelling of both arms, neck, and head consistent with superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome. Venography showed bilateral brachiocephalic vein ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Vertebral venography has been advocated before bone cement injection when performing percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) for benign or malignant lesions of the spine. Although venography can document sites of potential leakage during subsequent cement application, stagnant contrast agent renders the cement injection more difficult to monitor, and an allergic reaction to cont...

Venous thromboembolic disease is a common but likely underdiagnosed condition in the cancer patient population. Timely and accurate diagnosis of venous thromboembolism is imperative due to the unacceptable morbidity and mortality associated with a misdiagnosis. Because diagnosis of the condition based on clinical grounds alone is unreliable, physicians should select an appropriate objective dia...

Platelets labeled with indium-I 11 have been used successfully as a marker of active thrombosis in man. To establish the diagnostic accuracy of platelet scintigraphy in comparison to contrast venography in the diagnosis of acute lower limb venous thrombosis, we evaluated 103 consecutive patients divided into two groups. Platelets were labeled by the indium-I 1 1 oxine method. Patients from grou...