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Posted
Wed 17 Feb 2010 12:00am
Did you know that venous thromboembolism (pulmonary emobolism and deep vein thrombosis) is two times more likely in people with CKD than without? This NICE Guideline on VTE is therefore highly relevant to all those who work in kidney services.
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Posted
Tue 23 Feb 2010 12:00am
The 25,000? The thromboembolism lies
Following up on my last piece on the government's spinning of the death statistics, it turns out that less than three thousand people die as a result of venous per year, this is according to the 2008 statistics .
The Department of Health and NICE both reference the Health Select Committee
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Posted
Sat 20 Feb 2010 12:00am
Thromboembolism propaganda from HMG
The government is trying to convince us of the massive threat of venous (), for some reason the threat of deep vein thromboses and pulmonary has been hyped up beyond all proportion in recent years. Sometimes myths get propagated from nowhere as no one has bothered to check actual facts
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Posted
Fri 06 Mar 2009 2:41pm
Chronic Kidney Disease Predicts Risk for Thromboembolism in Patients with Afib
Chronic kidney disease is an independent predictor of incident thromboembolism among... with nonvalvular afib and no previous kidney transplant. During roughly 33,000 person-years of follow-up, nearly 700 thromboembolic events occurred while patients were off anticoagulation
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Posted
Sat 04 Apr 2009 11:38pm
venous thromboembolism (the development of clots in the veins of the legs or lungs). DVT can be caused by sitting still during long-haul air travel or being confined to bed... was this? This study was a large randomised controlled trial that reported on the effects of statin use on occurrence of venous thromboembolism (deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
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