Venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among hospitalised medical patients. Ongoing efforts to refine risk assessment and optimise prophylactic strategies ...

The earliest published study on this topic was a retrospective case–control study by Northup and associates [8] focusing on 113 inpatients with cirrhosis who had newly diagnosed VTE during hospital ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2012;69(8):658-663. There are inherent limitations to the determination of VTE risk in the population of patients with cirrhosis. In most of the studies evaluated in this ...

Dr. Nigel Key and Dr. Anna Falanga join us for a conversation on the updated ASCO VTE prophylaxis and treatment in patients with cancer guideline. They discuss recent evidence assessing apixaban for ...

Real-world data from a multi-center study: Insights to the efficacy and safety in patients with ovarian cancer (OC) received niraparib as first-line (1st-L) maintenance therapy (MT). Circulating tumor ...

In total hip or total knee arthroplasty, hypercoagulability typically begins on the operating table and a hypercoagulable state persists for up to 3 months after surgery. For that reason, it is ...

Boston, MA (April 30, 2021) - A new set of guidelines, developed by AATS and ESTS (European Society for Thoracic Surgery) presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, recommends a 30-day course ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

"We still have a lot of work ahead to define what the most informative prediction/scoring VTE systems are, for both newly diagnosed and relapsed/refractory MM patients, and how we can make them more ...

No increased delirium with hydromorphone after hip surgery Aspirin for 28 days is non-inferior to and as safe as dalteparin for preventing venous thromboembolism. HealthDay News — Twenty-eight days of ...