Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is an important life threatening condition that is difficult to diagnose, particularly in the early stages. Looking for DVT in lower limb can be considered ancillary in suspected cases of pulmonary embolism (PE) indirectly highlighting a cause and effect relationship of a single disease (i.e cause being DVT and effect is the assault on the lung vasculature). Prompt an...

BACKGROUND Hospital administrative data are being used to identify patients with postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE), either pulmonary embolism (PE) or deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). However, few studies have evaluated the accuracy of these ICD-9-CM codes across multiple hospitals. METHODS AND MATERIALS The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicator (PSI)-1...

PURPOSE Comatose elderly patients with acute neurological illness have a great risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). In this study, the incidence of DVT and the effectiveness of early initiation of treatment were evaluated in those patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total 323 patients were admitted to our ward due to neurological diseases in one year, and 43 patients, whose Glasgow Coma Scale was ...

Abstract Background Post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) is a frequent chronic complication of proximal deep vein thrombosis (DVT) the lower limb, but predictors PTS are not well established. We aimed to examine in patients with long-term following DVT. Methods During 2006–09, 209 first time acute upper femoral or iliofemoral DVT were randomized receive either additional catheter-directed thrombolysi...

THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY MEDICINE VOL I ISSUE I Several clinical prediction have been developed to categorised such patients as Geneva or Well’s scores; however the ability to accurately determine the pretest probability of PE appears to increase with clinical experience. [4] Accurate diagnosis of acute PE may be difficult on these bases, because of non-specificity of not only the cl...

INTRODUCTION Outside the intensive care unit (ICU), clinically important deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is usually defined as a symptomatic event that leads to objective radiologic confirmation and subsequent treatment. The objective of the present survey is to identify the patient factors and radiologic features of lower limb DVT that intensivists consider more or less likely to make a DVT clinica...

Objectives: The multicenter, prospective, single arm CLOUT registry assesses the safety and effectiveness of ClotTriever System (Inari Medical, Irvine, CA) for treatment acute nonacute lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in all-comer patients. Reported here are outcomes first 250

We report a case of a 75-year-old female with a history of acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) 6 years ago who presented with unilateral calf swelling and pain. D-dimer was normal, and compression ultrasound revealed findings typical of DVT, including an incompressible dilated and hypoechoic peroneal vein. Despite 4 months of anticoagulation for supposed recurrent DVT, pain symptoms persisted and ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the rate of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) resolution and DVT outcomes as functions of the level of oral anticoagulation therapy achieved with warfarin. METHODS In 33 consecutive patients, a series of 35 limbs with acute symptomatic DVT was followed throughout 1 year of anticoagulation therapy. All the patients underwent 5 days of intravenous unfr...

BACKGROUND There is increasing recognition that deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is a complicating factor in some children with acute hematogenous osteomyelitis. The similarity in signs and symptoms of osteomyelitis and DVT make clinical recognition of this complicating condition difficult. It would be helpful to the clinician to identify by other means which children with osteomyelitis are at grea...