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Incidence of deep vein thrombosis in bedridden non-surgical patients
A Kierkegaard1, L Norgren, C G Olsson
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Lund, Sweden.
Acta Medica Scandinavica
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
In order to detect deep vein thrombosis (DVT), 101 patients with acute medical or infectious disorders were examined with the 125I-fibrinogen uptake test. All patients were bedridden on admission and were scanned daily from the second to the eighth day. Thirteen patients developed a positive fibrinogen uptake test. Thus, if a positive test is interpreted as DVT, the incidence of DVT was 13% in our bedridden patients. Of the patients admitted because of heart disease or pneumonia 20% had DVT, but only 4% of those admitted with other diagnoses. Other clinical "risk factors" studied, could not identify patients who developed DVT.