Thrombosis

Deep vein thrombosis is quite serious since it means that blood clots are trapped deeply in the veins. My article explains more.Contributor: Jennifer KirkmanPublished: Dec 01, 2009  

Background: Pulmonary vein thrombosis represents a potentially fatal disease. This syndrome may clinically mimic pulmonary embolism but has a different investigation strategy and prognosis. Pulmonary vein thrombosis is difficult to diagnose clinically and usually requires a combination of conventionally used diagnostic modalities.Case presentationThe authors report a case of a 78-year-old previously healthy female presenting with collapse and...  

Hypothesis  Pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in trauma are related. Design  Retrospective review of medical records. Setting  Academic level I trauma center. Patients  Trauma patients who underwent computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) with computed tomographic venography (CTV) of the pelvic and proximal lower extremity veins over a 3-year period (January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2006) were reviewed. Data on...  

The latest findings on how blood clots form could open the door to the development of new and better-targeted drugs for patients at risk of strokes or heart attacks. Many of these patients currently take anticoagulant drugs such as Warfarin, which lower the risk of heart attacks or strokes by reducing the blood's ability to clot. Although these drugs reduce the risk of dangerous blood clot formation within blood vessels (thrombosis), they also...  

I was so happy my friend found this blog. I was happy to find others that are going through similar problem(s). I was diagnosed with Portal Vein Thrombosis in July 2009. As many of you, I was put in the hospital for 8 days and underwent many tests to...  

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Dural vein thrombosis is an important but rare cause of headache. Therapy with cyclosporine has been reported to result in thrombotic events. We report an unusual case of superior sagittal and transverse sinus thrombosis associated with cyclosporine therapy in a kidney transplant patient.  

IntroductionAlthough mural thrombus in an abdominal aortic aneurysm is frequent and its role has been studied extensively, complete thrombosis of an abdominal aneurysm is extremely rare and its natural history in relation to the risk of rupture is not known. The case of a patient with a completely thrombosed infrarenal aneurysm is presented along with a literature review.Case presentationWe report the case of a 56-year-old Caucasian man with...  

Background— Although C-reactive protein (CRP) has been proposed as a useful biomarker for predicting atherothrombosis, the association between CRP and stent thrombosis after drug-eluting stent implantation has not been defined. Methods and Results— We prospectively evaluated 2691 patients treated with drug-eluting stents who had a baseline CRP measurement. The primary outcome was stent thrombosis; secondary outcomes were death, myocardial...  

A trial to speed up treatment for patients suspected of having deep vein thrombosis has meant some patients have avoided lengthy waits in the Dunedin Hospital emergency department. read more  

IntroductionAntiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disorder characterized by either a history of vascular thrombosis (one or more clinical episodes of arterial, venous, or small vessel thrombosis in any tissue or organ) or pregnancy morbidity in association with the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies. The systemic features of the syndrome are characterized by large variability depending on the affected organ(s). Among them...  

ModernMedicineVenous Thromboembolism Risk Varies With Body Type Study suggests waist and hip ...ModernMedicine... obesity and hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia, all of which are major risk factors for atherosclerosis and arterial thrombosis; ...  

Few trauma patients who develop potentially deadly blood clots in the lungs (pulmonary embolism) also have clots in the deep veins of their pelvis and legs (deep venous thrombosis), challenging commonly held beliefs about the association between the two conditions, according to a new report.  

Lund, Sweden and Leuven, Belgium 28 October 2009 - BioInvent International AB (OMXS: BINV) and ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR) announce that they have completed recruitment of their Phase II trial of TB-402 ahead of schedule. TB-402 is a novel, long acting anticoagulant that is being developed for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) following orthopaedic surgery. The results of...  

Background— Bleeding is a strong predictor of death in patients hospitalized for arterial thrombosis who are treated with antithrombotic therapy, but the prognostic importance of bleeding in patients receiving antithrombotic prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism is uncertain. Methods and Results— Using Cox proportional hazards modeling, we examined the association between major bleeding and death at 30 days using pooled individual patient...