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1: Cleve Clin J Med. 2004 Dec;71(12):947-8, 951-3, 956 passim.Click here to read Links

Benefits of more aggressive VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients.

Menajovsky LB, Spandorfer J.

Jefferson Antithrombotic Therapy Service, Department of Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. leon.menajovsky@jefferson.edu

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes both deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is a well-known risk in surgical patients, but it is also a significant and often unrecognized source of mortality and morbidity in hospitalized medical patients. The need for routine prophylaxis in the general medical population is increasingly supported.

PMID: 15641523 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]