Prevalence of the post‐thrombotic syndrome in young women with previous venous thromboembolism
- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Haematology
- Vol. 108 (2), 272-274
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.01877.x
Abstract
The prevalence of mild, moderate and severe post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) among 43 young women with a previous single episode of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) was 67%, 7% and 0% respectively. Subjects were assessed at a mean 51 months after the event. Moderate PTS was more common in women with recurrent (n = 9) DVT (44%, P < 0.001). Chronic venous insufficiency, assessed by light reflection rheography (LRR), was significantly (P < 0.05) more prevalent in women with single previous DVT (n = 40), recurrent DVT (n = 9) and isolated pulmonary embolism (PE) (n = 19) compared with healthy age-matched controls (odds ratios 10.9, 52.4 and 3.8 respectively). LRR findings correlated with moderate, but not mild, PTS. There was no correlation between development of PTS and body mass index.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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