pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) has a wide spectrum of presentations, and its c ardinal manifestations include chest pain, dyspnea, and syncope. syncope as an initial presentation of pte occurs in 10-14% of patients and is not restricted to massive ptes. it can also occur in the setting of non- massive cases probably due to a vasovagal mechanism or the occurrence of conduction disturbances in p...

background: antiphospholipid antibodies (apl) are a heterogeneous family of anti-bodies associated with thrombosis and other complications. objective: to study the prevalence of apl in patients with thrombosis at aleppo university hospitals, syria. methods: one hundred and fifty-seven patients with venous and arterial thrombosis and 63 healthy controls were studied. anticardiolipin antibodies (...

background there is controversy regarding routine prophylaxis for deep vein thrombosis (dvt) in patients treated via a short leg cast or splint following lower extremity trauma. results there were 95 patients with an average age of 38 ± 13.7 (77.9% males); 46 patients had at least one risk factor for dvt. the d-dimer test was positive in 21(22.1%) patients. dvt was confirmed by due in 3 patient...

the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and incidence of venous thromboembolism among critically ill medical surgical patients. in this cross sectional and retrospective study, we observed 243 patients who were first admitted at the intensive care unit. patients who were diagnosed with deep venous thrombosis or embolism either by clinical or paraclinical methods were enrolle...

factor v leiden deficiency is the most common hereditary hypercoagulable disease in the united states and involves 5% of the caucasian population. up to 30% of patients who present with deep vein thrombosis (dvt) or pulmonary thromboembolism present with this condition. this is a case report of a 36-year-old man who experienced one episode of dvt within the previous year and was admitted to our...

patients and methods using current procedural terminology (cpt) codes for orthopaedic trauma procedures, we identified a prospective cohort of patients from the 2006 to 2013 acs-nsqip database. using wilcoxon-mann-whitney and chi-square tests where appropriate, patient demographics, comorbidities, and operative factors were compared between patients who developed a dvt within 30 days of surgery...

conclusions if seizure occurs during the peripartum period, along with providing complete cardiovascular and respiratory support, advanced diagnostic measures are needed and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis should be considered as a possible diagnosis. introduction seizure involves less than 1% of pregnancies; however it is associated with increased maternal and fetal complications. cerebral ve...