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==Treatment== | ==Treatment== | ||
For patients with symptomatic calf-vein thrombosis, compression stockings along with [[anticoagulation]] may prevent recurrences.<ref name="pmid2863541">{{cite journal |author=Lagerstedt CI, Olsson CG, Fagher BO, Oqvist BW, Albrechtsson U |title=Need for long-term anticoagulant treatment in symptomatic calf-vein thrombosis |journal=Lancet |volume=2 |issue=8454 |pages=515–8 |year=1985 |month=September |pmid=2863541 |doi= |url= |issn=}}</ref> | For patients with symptomatic calf-vein thrombosis, compression stockings along with [[anticoagulation]] may prevent recurrences.<ref name="pmid2863541">{{cite journal |author=Lagerstedt CI, Olsson CG, Fagher BO, Oqvist BW, Albrechtsson U |title=Need for long-term anticoagulant treatment in symptomatic calf-vein thrombosis |journal=Lancet |volume=2 |issue=8454 |pages=515–8 |year=1985 |month=September |pmid=2863541 |doi= |url= |issn=}}</ref> | ||
==Prognosis== | |||
While unusual, case reports exist of [[pulmonary embolism]] from calf vein thrombosis.<ref name="pmid61423">{{cite journal |author=Loudon JR |title=Fatal embolism from calf-vein thrombosis |journal=Lancet |volume=2 |issue=7988 |pages=742–3 |year=1976 |month=October |pmid=61423 |doi= |url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140-6736(76)90039-8 |issn=}}</ref> | |||
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In medicine, calf vein thrombosis is deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the infrapopliteal calf veins.[1][2] Distal DVTs are more common than proximal DVTs in studies using venography[2] but not in studies using ultrasonography[3]. Many distal DVTs are assymptomatic.[4]
Diagnosis
The d-dimer test may not reliably detect thromboses of the calf vein with sensitivity of about 65%.[2]
Treatment
For patients with symptomatic calf-vein thrombosis, compression stockings along with anticoagulation may prevent recurrences.[5]
Prognosis
While unusual, case reports exist of pulmonary embolism from calf vein thrombosis.[6]
References
- ↑ Mattos MA, Melendres G, Sumner DS, et al (November 1996). "Prevalence and distribution of calf vein thrombosis in patients with symptomatic deep venous thrombosis: a color-flow duplex study". J. Vasc. Surg. 24 (5): 738–44. PMID 8918317. [e]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jennersjö CM, Fagerberg IH, Karlander SG, Lindahl TL (October 2005). "Normal D-dimer concentration is a common finding in symptomatic outpatients with distal deep vein thrombosis". Blood Coagul. Fibrinolysis 16 (7): 517–23. PMID 16175012. [e]
- ↑ Stevens SM, Elliott CG, Chan KJ, Egger MJ, Ahmed KM (June 2004). "Withholding anticoagulation after a negative result on duplex ultrasonography for suspected symptomatic deep venous thrombosis". Ann. Intern. Med. 140 (12): 985–91. PMID 15197015. [e]
- ↑ Kakkar VV, Howe CT, Flanc C, Clarke MB (August 1969). "Natural history of postoperative deep-vein thrombosis". Lancet 2 (7614): 230–2. PMID 4184105. [e]
- ↑ Lagerstedt CI, Olsson CG, Fagher BO, Oqvist BW, Albrechtsson U (September 1985). "Need for long-term anticoagulant treatment in symptomatic calf-vein thrombosis". Lancet 2 (8454): 515–8. PMID 2863541. [e]
- ↑ Loudon JR (October 1976). "Fatal embolism from calf-vein thrombosis". Lancet 2 (7988): 742–3. PMID 61423. [e]