Venous Thrombosis After Long-haul Flights
Open Access
- 8 December 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 163 (22) , 2759-2764
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.163.22.2759
Abstract
HOMANS1,2 WAS the first to report 2 cases of venous thrombosis after long-distance flights in 1954; in 1977 Symington and Stack3 introduced the term economy class syndrome; and in the past decade at least 200 cases of traveler's thrombosis have been reported in the literature.4 The following pathophysiological mechanisms have been suggested: (1) cabin-related factors such as decreased air pressure and release of nitric oxide5,6; (2) dehydration as a result of the low humidity in the cabin and consumption of alcohol and caffeine during the flight7,8; and (3) venous stasis.1,8This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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