✦ LIBER ✦
Image-directed Doppler ultrasound: A screening technique for patients at high risk to develop deep vein thrombosis
✍ Scribed by John J. Cronan; John A. Froehlich; Gary S. Dorfman
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 554 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
Hip fracture patients typify a population at high risk to develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Recently ultrasound has been used successfully to diagnose DVT when clinical suspicion exists. In this prospective study, 88 hip fracture patients asymptomatic for DVT were screened serially with compression ultrasound to assess the development of thrombus within the femoral or popliteal systems. Contrast venography was employed as a control. Twelve of the 76 patients (16%) completing the