Key points A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department with back and right upper quadrant abdominal pain that progressed to painful right leg swelling over a few days. His vital signs at ...

The newly trained physicians in this study had an outstanding accuracy rate of deep vein thrombosis when doing their first compression ultrasonography after training. The area where there was an ...

is caused by the compression of abdominal blood vessels by adjacent structures or the compression of abdominal organs by neighboring blood vessels. Such compressions can result in a variety of ...

If you have a DVT, it's important to get diagnosed right away before it becomes a pulmonary embolism. Once a PE blocks an artery in your lung, all blood flow is reduced or stopped completely, which ...

Methods: We evaluated 127 patients with DVT after trauma, all of whom were treated with conventional anticoagulation and assessed for the presence of RVT with venous compression ultrasound (CUS), ...

The reliability of these tests varies. For example, compression ultrasounds are best for detecting DVT in proximal deep veins, like femoral and popliteal veins (thighs), but duplex ultrasound and ...

Study Rundown: DVT refers to the formation of a blood clot within a deep vein, most commonly at or above the knee, such as the popliteal, femoral and iliac veins. If left untreated, patients are at ...