Abstract:Background:
Discharging patients on extended postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis is trending in microsurgical breast reconstruction (MBR). This study investigated contemporary bleeding and thromboembolic complications after MBR and reported postdischarge enoxaparin outcomes.
Methods:
The PearlDiver database was queried for MBR patients who did not receive postdischarge VTE prophylaxis (cohort 1) and MBR patients discharged with enoxaparin for at least 14 days (cohort 2), then queried for h… Show more
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