Lower extremity venous thrombosis in patients younger than 50 years of age

Vascular Health and Risk Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 161-167

  Kreidy, Raghid ^a   Salameh, Pascale ^b   Waked, Mirna ^a  

^a SAINT GEORGE HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Lebanon)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Genetics; Lower extremities; Risk factors; Venous thrombosis; Young patient

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; ESTROGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTOR V LEIDEN GENE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHERITED THROMBOPHILIA; LEBANESE; LOWER EXTREMITY DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOPHILIA; AGE; AGED; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LEBANON; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEBANON; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863213019     PISSN: 11766344     EISSN: 11782048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/VHRM.S29457     Document Type: Article

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