Deep venous thrombosis after saphenous endovenous radiofrequency ablation: Is it predictable?

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 679-685

  Jacobs, Chad E ^a   Pinzon, Maria Mora ^a   Orozco, Jennifer ^a   Hunt, Peter J B ^a   Rivera, Aksim ^a   McCarthy, Walter J ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; CLOPIDOGREL; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; WARFARIN;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR DEFICIENCY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG USE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VEIN; POPLITEAL VEIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TOBACCO USE; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN OCCLUSION; VENOUS REFLUX; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CATHETER ABLATION; DUPLEX DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ILLINOIS; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897017516     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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