Failure in prophylactic management of thromboembolic disease in colorectal surgery
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·
· Dis. Colon Rectum; (United States)
The operative courses of 294 elective consecutive colorectal resections were reviewed in order to evaluate the morbidity and mortality of postoperative thromboembolic complications. All patients received low-dose heparin prophylaxis. Fifty-seven patients were screened for deep venous thrombosis with the fibrinogen uptake test, and treatment of thromboembolism was started if the diagnosis was established by venography and/or pulmonary scintigraphy. Neither the morbidity nor mortality from clinical thromboembolic complications was lowered in the group of patients who were screened. Rectal surgery seems to carry a higher risk of postoperative thromboembolic complications than colon surgery, and thromboembolic complications are responsible for about half of the postoperative deaths following elective colorectal surgery.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- OSTI ID:
- 6970249
- Journal Information:
- Dis. Colon Rectum; (United States), Journal Name: Dis. Colon Rectum; (United States) Vol. 31:5; ISSN DICRA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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