Use of aspirin postoperatively in patients treated with orthopedic oncology surgery may be suitable and effective for venous thromboembolic chemoprophylaxis, according to results published in The ...

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 ...

Stakeholders concurred that the occurrence of VTE events is a significant public health concern. According to Ralph J. Riello III, PharmD, “It is a problem often that hospitals do not know that they ...

Guidelines for VTE Prophylaxis in Nonsurgical Patients Issued New evidence-based clinical practice guidelines have been issued for the prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in nonsurgical ...

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 ...

Impact of early engagement of patients with clinical trial information in a system-based multidisciplinary breast cancer clinic on clinical trial enrollment. Step 1. Draft a single VTE protocol using ...

Venous thromboembolism incidence has remained low and largely unchanged following colorectal surgery despite an increase in pre- and post-surgical prevention strategies, according to study results.

"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 ...

Credit: Getty Images. Post-pubertal adolescents (about 13 years of age and older) have slightly elevated VTE risk, although the incidence is significantly lower than that in the adult population.

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 ...