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Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Screening for Proximal Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis
Published on: February 10, 2023
Concomitant acute deep venous thrombosis and superficial thrombophlebitis of the lower limbs
Sorin Crişan1, Daniela Vornicescu, Doiniţa Crişan
15th Medical Clinic, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, 11 Tăbăcarilor str, 400139, Romania. crisan.sorin@gmail.com
Introduction:
Some patients may have deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and superficial thrombophlebitis (ST) of the lower limbs at the same time.
Aims:
To analyze the frequency of risk factors for thrombosis (RF), other than thrombophilias, in patients with concomitant DVT and ST.
Patients And Methods:
Clinical examination, plasma D-dimers and duplex ultrasonography were performed in 88 consecutive patients (mean age 64.9 +/-13.9 years) admitted in Medical Clinic in 2007. Patients with DVT were divided into two groups: A (with ST - 30 subjects, 34.1%) and B (without ST - 58 patients, 65.9%).
Results:
Conditions known as RF were the following (Group A versus B): varicose veins (17 vs 21 patients, p=0.11), obesity (12 vs 19, p=0.66), previous venous thromboembolism (8 vs 16, p=0.87), malignancy (4 vs 10, p=0.44), chronic obstructive lung disease (4 vs 7, p=0.56), sepsis (2 vs 3, p=0.56), stroke and chemotherapy (1 vs 2, p=0.73), bed rest more than three days (1 vs 7, p=0.17), major surgery (1 vs 1, p=0.57), family history of DVT (1 vs 0, p=0.57), immobilizing plaster cast (0 vs 1, p=0.57).
Conclusion:
One third of patients with DVT had ST. None of those conditions considered as RF for DVT correlated with DVT-ST association.
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