Incidence and location of deep vein thrombosis in the lower extremities: what do we know?
Niels BÆKGAARD, Vascular Clinic, Gentofte Hospital and Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Abstract In the last century, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) plus pulmonary embolism was one of the most frequent causes of death in hospitalized patients. However, the incidence of DVT alone has been difficult to calculate from the entity of venous thromboembolism because the incidence of DVT is provided as either DVT without pulmonary embolism or pulmonary embolism ± DVT, where the latter group does not provide the precise rate of DVT. Therefore, our epidemiological review will focus on the first group, with an emphasis on first-time DVT. In…
