Deep Vein Thrombosis

New Therapies Allow Patients To Be Treated At Home

Published in Blood Weekly, June 14th, 2001

New, effective therapies for acute deep vein thrombosis mean that most patients do not need to be admitted to hospital. These results challenge the traditional notion that these patients must be treated in hospital and adds to the evidence that home treatment of deep vein thrombosis is now routinely feasible.

Between November 1998 and August 1999, 117 outpatients presenting to the vascular diagnostics unit of the University Hospital Dresden in Germany were diagnosed as having acute deep vein thrombosis. Of these, 92 received home treatment - that is, they were not admitted at all. Those who did require admission depended mainly on factors to do with infrastructure...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2001-06-14)

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