Venous thrombosis: diagnosis and treatment; new methods and strategies for management.
Venous thrombosis most often attacks patients who have had alterations of venous stasis, endothelial damage, and/or hypercoagulability. Diagnosis generally depends on venography or duplex doppler ultrasonography; treatment is usually started with heparin and may proceed to warfarin alone.
Freedman
M D
MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Childrens Hospital & Center for Reconstructive Surgery, Baltimore, Md., USA.
Young
M
M
D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006495:Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D019851:Thrombophilia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014859:Warfarin / Q000627:therapeutic use