Deep Vein Thrombosis. Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatments

Description:

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is the third most common cardiovascular disease. Two-thirds of patients with DVT are first episodes, and the remainders are recurrences. Pulmonary embolism is the most common complication of DVT. And now, DVT and pulmonary are considered two spectra of the same disease, namely venous thromboembolism (VTE). This book provides a comprehensive review of current diagnosis and treatment of DVT. This book includes chapters on clinical approaches in DVT, VTE and cancer, prevention of DVT in neurological surgery, combination of pretest clinical probability score and different D-dimer cutoff value for exclusion of VTE, ambulatory therapy for DVT, management of DVT with oral anticoagulant, surgical intervention for acute DVT, and recent multicenter survey of DVT from Japan. In this book, the mechanisms of VTE, diagnostic strategy of DVT, various treatment options for DVT, and prevention of VTE are discussed. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)

Table of Contents:

Preface pp. i-xv

Chapter 1: Clinical approach in deep vein thrombosis
(C. Rinaldi A. Lesmana and Aru W. Sudoyo) pp. 1-10

Chapter 2: Thromboembolic events and cancer
(Jennifer Foglietta, Stefania Gori, Lucia Stocchi and Lucio Crinò)pp. 11-34

Chapter 3: Prevention of deep vein thrombosis in neurological surgery
(Mario Ganau and Leonello Tacconi)pp. 35-58

Chapter 4: Combination of pretest clinical probability score and different
D-dimer cutoff value for exclusion of venous thromboembolism
(Takashi Yamaki)pp. 59-72

Chapter 5: Ambulatory treatment of deep vein thrombosis
(Mehmet Kurtoglu)pp. 73-96

Chapter 6: Management of deep vein thrombosis with oral vitamin K antagonist
(Pinjala Ramakrishna)pp. 97-124

Chapter 7: Surgical treatment of acute deep vein thrombosis
(Tomohiro Ogawa)pp. 125-132

Chapter 8: The survey of deep vein thrombosis and venous thromboembolism prevention: Japanese Vein Study XIII
(Hirono Satokawa, Takashi Yamaki, Hirohide Iwata, Masahiro Sakata, Norihide Sugano, Toshiya Nishibe, Makoto Mo and Norikazu Yamada)pp. 133-148

Contributing Authors pp. 149-150

Index pp. 151-159

Editors: Takashi Yamaki (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan)