An Epidemiologic Study of Risk Factors for Deep Vein Thrombosis in Medical Outpatients
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- 11 December 2000
- journal article
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- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 160 (22) , 3415-3420
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.160.22.3415
Abstract
DEEP VEIN thrombosis (DVT) remains a frequent disease in which the major complication is pulmonary embolism (PE)—both DVT and PE occurring most frequently in nonsurgical (medical) patients.1 The incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in general medical patients ranges from 10% to 30%.2,3 In addition, autopsy series of hospitalized patients have shown that PE was the cause of 4% to 11% of deaths and that only 1 in 4 of these patients had recent surgery.4,5 As sudden death is often the first and only clinical sign of VTE,5 and as most deaths occur within 30 minutes of the acute event, systematic prophylaxis has been advocated as the most convenient and logical answer to this threat.6Keywords
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