作者
Abdulaziz Aldawood, Yaseen Arabi, Abdulrahman Aljumah, Alawi Alsaeedi, Asgar Rishu, Hasan Aldorzi, Saad Alqahtani, Mohammad Alsultan, Afaf Felemban
发表日期
2011/12
期刊
Thrombosis journal
卷号
9
页码范围
1-6
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
Cirrhotic patients are characterized by a decreased synthesis of coagulation and anticoagulation factors. The coagulopathy of cirrhotic patients is considered to be auto-anticoagulation. Our aim was to determine the incidence and predictors of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and examine the practice of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis among hospitalized cirrhotic patients.
Methods
A retrospective cohort study was performed in a tertiary teaching hospital. We included all adult patients admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of liver cirrhosis from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009. We grouped our cohort patients in two groups, cirrhotic patients without VTE and cirrhotic with VTE.
Results
Over one year, we included 226 cirrhotic patients, and the characteristics of both groups were similar …
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