[The thromboembolic risk in abdominal plastic surgery. A randomized statistical study of 190 cases]

The authors studied the risk of thromboembolism in a randomized study of 190 abdominoplasties. In this study, none of the classical risk factors (weight, operating time, weight of the surgical specimen, combined surgery) were significant. Only contention associated with anticoagulants (low molecular weight heparin) decreased this risk to 2.74%. In view of this residual percentage, the authors recommend systematic postoperative duplex scan on the 5th postoperative day.