Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) poses a significant burden on health and survival. Its severity ranges from asymptomatic, incidentally discovered subsegmental thrombi to massive, pressor-dependent PE complicated by cardiogenic shock and multisystem organ failure. Rapid and accurate risk stratification is therefore of paramount importance to ensure the highest quality of care. This article critica...

Result: The overall incidence of symptomatic VTE among the study subjects was 0.28% (25/9,041 deliveries), representing an incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Thrombo Embolism (PTE) of 0.22% and 0.05%, respectively. During the pregnancy and postpartum periods, 19 and 6 VTE cases, respectively, were observed. The risk of DVT was possibly the highest in the first trimester. Al...

The incidence of renal vein thrombosis (RVT) and other thrombo-embolic phenomena was evaluated in 44 unselected patients with nephrotic syndrome. Renal vein thrombosis was demonstrated by selective renal venography in 10 patients and at post-mortem in one. Extension of the thrombus from the renal veins into the inferior vena cava was seen in 3 patients. Evidence of thrombo-embolism elsewhere in...

P LATELET thrombo-embolism is receiving recognition as an important condition. It is, as yet, poorly understood and cotssequent-ly difficult to diagnose. Lutz, Fulton and Akers’ have reported the presence of platelet thrombo-embolic conditions in hamsters after trauma, infection and malignant neoplasia and have related their results to various clinical manifest-atiotss and autopsy findings, cha...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the third most common vascular disease, after ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke and it is a silent killer. The mechanism underlying DVT, known as Virchow’s triad, are venous stasis, hypercoagubility and endothelial injury. DVT may cause life threatening condition like pulmonary embolism due to dislodgement of thrombus [1]. DVT has an estimated annual incidenc...

Thrombophilic disorders encompass a diverse group of coagulation disorders that potentiate a predisposition for thrombotic events (e.g. deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism). The term thrombophilia was coined in 1965 following a Norwegian familial study of venous thrombosis [1]. The entity of thrombophilia has also been described as a disorder in which there is abnormally, enhanced coagu...

A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized due to a 2-year history of dyspnoea and weight loss. A transthoracic echocardiogram showed a large ‘thrombus-like’ mass occupying the right ventricular outflow tract and the main pulmonary trunk (Panel A; see Supplementary material online, Movie S1). The Doppler study showed turbulent right ventricular outflow (see Supplementary material online, Movie S2). A...