Portal vein thrombosis can occur in patients with nephrotic syndrome. Learn key diagnostic and treatment considerations by reading this Case Study of a 52-year-old man admitted with abdominal pain.

On April 6, 2003, NBC’s David Bloom, 39, was in Iraq covering the war when he died suddenly of a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) complication. A clot that formed in his legs moved to his lungs ...

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a rare condition accounting for <1% of all strokes, with highly variable clinical presentations ranging from a headache to coma.1–4 Although MRI and MR venography ...

Symptoms of Deep Vein Thrombosis A DVT usually forms in the veins of your legs or arms. Up to 30%of people with a DVT don’t have symptoms, but sometimes the symptoms are very mild and may not raise ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a condition wherein a blood clot forms deep in the leg. In terms of DVT statistics, it is experienced by approximately 900,000 Americans per year, with as many as 60,000 ...

Background: Monocytes are thought to be involved in venous thrombosis but the role of individual monocyte subpopulations on thrombus formation, clot inflammation, and degradation is an important ...

Background Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is an important complication of stroke. Guidelines recommend that DVT prophylaxis should be guided by an assessment of the individual patient's risk. The authors ...

Introduction Hospital-acquired thrombosis accounts for a large proportion of all venous thromboembolism (VTE), with significant morbidity and mortality. This subset of VTE can be reduced through ...

Safety Wright 76 reported an incidence of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in 5.3% of patients after injection of 60ml of foam, and the author decided to reduce maximum volume to 30ml. After reduction, 95 ...

Bier, A.: Neuer Weg Localanästhesie au den Gliedmassen zu erzeugen. Arch. für klin. Chir., Berlin, lxxxviii, no. 4, pp. 859-1087 ...

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The “open vein hypothesis” postulates that early thrombus clearance and restoration of venous blood flow may prevent postthrombotic syndrome after proximal deep vein thrombosis. Since its proposal ...