Patient-based and surgical characteristics associated with the acute development of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism after spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 1892-1898

  Schoenfeld, Andrew J ^a   Herzog, Joshua P ^a   Dunn, John C ^a   Bader, Julia O ^b   Belmont, Philip J ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Deep venous thrombosis; Mortality; Obesity; Pulmonary embolism; Spine surgery; Venous thromboembolic disease

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTERIOR LUMBAR FUSION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL SPINE ANTERIOR FUSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION; POSTERIOR LUMBAR FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SPINE SURGERY; STAND ALONE LUMBAR LAMINECTOMY; STANDA ALONE LUMBAR DISCECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84888641630     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31829fc3a0     Document Type: Article

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