Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Deep Venous
Thrombosis
- Treatment
- Anticoagulation therapy
- Coumadin
- Heparin
- Thrombolitic therapy
- Inferior Vena cava filter
- Risk Factors
- Post surgical patients
- Immobility
- Trauma
- Venous Stasis
- Age
- Hypercoagulable states
- Pregnancy
- Oral contraceptives
- Pathophysiology
- Accumulation of clotting factors and platelets
- Thrombus formation
- Inflamation
- Platelet aggregation
- Diagnosis
- Serum D-dimer
- Doppler ultrasonography
- Clinical Manifestations
- Redness
- Pain
- Edema
- Epidemiology
- Approx. 1 person in
20 develops DVT in
their lifetime
- 80 cases per
100,000 poplulation
occur annually