The woman had been treated on an inpatient basis for 3 months for paranoid schizophrenia. The authors reported that the patient had refused subcutaneous thrombosis prophylaxis, which was indicated ...

PATIENT PRESENTATION A woman in her late 50s with a history of hypertension and diabetes presented with severe, debilitating ...

Thrombus distribution among patients with proximal deep vein thrombosis is highly diverse, researchers reported in a recent retrospective analysis. According to Marianne G.R. De Maeseneer, MD, PhD, ...

Vascular. 2010;18(1):20-27. Anticoagulant prophylaxis after hospital discharge, [7] although indicated in certain high-risk groups, is inconvenient because the recommended methods, low-molecularweight ...

Although a number of tests have been evaluated over the years, only three have been shown to have special value for diagnosing DVT in symptomatic patients: venous ultrasonography, venography and ...

SO-CALLED "effort thrombosis" of the axillary or subclavian vein has been the subject of at least 70 communications in the literature since 1930; upwards of 300 cases have been reported. 1–8 Deep ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) happens when a blood clot (thrombus) forms deep inside your vein. It usually forms in your legs. But it can happen anywhere. If DVT goes untreated, it can become ...

Background A 58-year-old man was referred to a private physical therapy centre in Madrid (Spain), by an orthopaedic surgeon four weeks after an arthroscopy procedure for a posterior horn medial ...