Risk factors for dvt of the lower extremities

Abstract

BackgroundDVT and her two complications, pulmonary emboli and post‐thrombotic syndrome are the main cause of intrahospital mortality and chronic morbidity. Studies says that there are around 100 to 160 new cases on 100 thousand habitans per year. For Kosova it means 2000 to 3000 new cases per year.The aimIt is the aim of the paper to analyse the epidemiology of the DVT, etiology and risk factors among the patients hospitalized at the Vascular Surgery Department.ResultsDuring two years study period, september 2002‐september 2004, at the Vascular Surgery Department of the University Clinical Center of Kosova due to DVT of the lower extremities were 194 patients or 45.64%. There was no difference between sex. The mean age was 49.92 years. From 204 extremities, DVT was localized on 85 extremities to the right (41.67%) and 119 extremities to the left (58.33%). Risk factors were presented at 145 patients. Surgery was often presented as risk factor, at 25 patients (12.89%); post‐partal state at 13 patients (6.70%), pregnancy 10 patients (5.15%), malignancy 10 patients (5.15%). Mean age of patients with DVT and malignancy was 54.4 years.ConclusionDVT is disease that is very hard to diagnose. First step is always to determine risk factors. Second step is to determine rate of clinical probability for DVT.