New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) recommend considering individual patients' risk of thrombosis when deciding for or against the use of preventive ...

New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) address the many risk factors for developing a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or blood clot, as the result of ...

If the choice is made to anticoagulate patients with symptomatic isolated distal deep vein thrombosis (DVT), outcomes will be improved with 12 versus 6 weeks of treatment, the randomized, ...

Clinicians have developed new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of blood clotting disorders. Scott M. Stevens, MD, co-director of the Thrombosis Clinic at Intermountain Medical Center, says ...

New guidelines for travellers have been issued. Experts warn that those with a higher risk of serious blood clots who opt for the window seat on flights longer than four hours are potentially putting ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Until recently, orthopedic surgeons lacked specialty-specific recommendations for preventing venous ...

GRENOBLE, France, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Following guidelines on deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prevention in hospital patients age 65 and up reduces the rate of DVTs in this population. So concluded Elodie ...

“Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines” offers more than 600 recommendations for the diagnosis, ...

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