Thromboses affecting venous superficial system have been considered as benign diseases. Recent studies demonstrate that they might be associated with more severe venous events (as deep venous thrombosis [DVT] or pulmonary embolism [PE]), initially or during 3-month followup. The POST study presents clinical evolution of 844 patients with superficial venous thrombosis (SVT) of lower limbs. Of note, concomitant DVT and/or symptomatic PE were initially found in one quarter of them. Among the 586 patients with isolated SVT (i. e. without DVT or symptomatic PE, and at more than 3 cm of the saphenofemoral junction), 10% presented with DVT, PE, recurrent or extensive SVT during the 3-month follow-up. These results, as the heterogeneous therapeutic management, were confirmed by another cohort study (OPTIMEV). In the CALISTO study, Fondaparinux, at a dose of 2.5 mg once a day for 45 days was effective in the treatment of patients with isolated SVT of the legs and did not have serious side effects. In absence of contra-indication, this treatment may be preferred in patients with confirmed isolated SVT of lower limb.
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J Vasc Interv Radiol
December 2024
Department of Vascular Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Vascular Center of Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China. Electronic address:
Purpose: This study evaluated whether endovascular therapy (ET) improved early symptom relief and decreased the incidence of moderate-to-severe post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) compared to anticoagulation alone in patients with subacute (15-28 days) iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
Materials And Methods: Consecutive patients with subacute iliofemoral DVT from January 2020 to June 2022 were identified. A total of 86 patients were categorized to treatment with ET alongside anticoagulation (endovascular group, n = 49) or anticoagulation alone (anticoagulation group, n = 37).
Jpn J Radiol
December 2024
Department of Radiology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan.
Brush sign (BS) was first reported as prominent hypointensity of deep medullary veins and subependymal veins on T2*-weighted images at 3 T MRI in patients with acute stroke in the territory of the middle cerebral artery. Subsequently, BS in central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as moyamoya disease, cerebral venous thrombosis, and Sturge-Weber syndrome was also described on susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI), and the clinical implications of BS were discussed. The purpose of this review is to demonstrate BS on SWI in various CNS diseases and its mechanisms in the above-mentioned diseases.
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December 2024
School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, Tamilnadu, India.
A new era for diagnosing and treating Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) relies on precise segmentation from medical images. Our research introduces a novel algorithm, the Modified-Net architecture, which integrates a broad spectrum of architectural components tailored to detect the intricate patterns and variances in DVT imaging data. Our work integrates advanced components such as dilated convolutions for larger receptive fields, spatial pyramid pooling for context, residual and inception blocks for multiscale feature extraction, and attention mechanisms for highlighting key features.
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December 2024
Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Background: Trauma and pregnancy are both risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE). We hypothesized that pregnant blunt trauma patients would have a higher incidence of VTE complications compared with matched nonpregnant females.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using National Trauma Data Bank data from 2017 to 2022.
Surgery
December 2024
Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Ryder Trauma Center, Miami, FL.
Background: As air travel and immobility are risk factors for venous thromboembolism, we aimed to test the hypothesis that internationally transferred trauma patients have a high incidence of venous thromboembolism on arrival.
Methods: A prospectively maintained registry of all international transferred trauma patients who presented to our level I trauma center from January 2023 to June 2024 was retrospectively reviewed. Patients with either lower extremity venous duplex ultrasound or computed tomography scan of the chest with contrast on arrival were included.
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