The majority of patients assessed in the study did not receive the VTE prevention bundle developed specifically for their ...

Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, but much of that ...

Learn the three main causes of swollen veins: venous insufficiency, blood clots, and inflammation. Discover symptoms, ...

The direct oral thrombin inhibitor dabigatran has a predictable anticoagulant effect and may be an alternative therapy to warfarin for patients who have acute venous thromboembolism. In a ...

A cohort study that evaluated and documented cases of phlebitis in venous accesses found an incidence of this complication in 43.2% of cases and indicated the length of hospital stay and the number of ...

Acute outpatient management of venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT), is perceived to be as safe as inpatient management in some settings.

Spinal cord lesions in MS “probably” form through the same mechanisms as those in the brain, says Reder. “For some unknown reason, white blood cells escape from the bloodstream, go through ...

Correspondence to Dr Peter George Kranz, Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA; peter.kranz{at}duke.edu The results obtained are encouraging. Mean headache severity, as ...

1 The Fourth School of Clinical Medicine, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang, China 2 Affiliated Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Westlake University, Zhejiang, China ...

Read before the meeting of the New England Surgical Society, New Haven, Conn., November 9, 1928. For record and address of author see "This Week's Issue," page 1001.