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summary points such how deep vein thrombosis had been an important cause of morbidity and mortality, clinical diagnosis, screening investigations include d-dimer tests and plethysmographic techniques, definitive diagnosis by venography or Ultrasonography, Initial treatment with heparin followed by oral anticoagulation, and the safety of outpatient treatment with deep vein thrombosis.
According to the American Heart Association, more than two million Americans develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT)annually. Deep vein thrombosis is caused by blood clots in blood vessels that form in veins where blood flow has been disturbed, in pockets in the calf’s deep veins, or in veins that have been traumatized. The greatest complication of a DVT is that the clot could dislodge and travel to the lungs, which is called a pulmonary embolism (PE).
There is description about clinical model based on clinical features such active cancer, paralysis, paresis, or recent plaster immobilisation of the legs, entire leg swollen, pitting oedema etc in a scoring system for predicting pretest probability of deep vein thrombosis.
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