PMID: 15373726Sep 18, 2004Paper

New criteria for the diagnostic and treatment of the deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs

Anales de medicina interna : organo oficial de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna
F Gabriel Botella, M Labiós Gómez

Abstract

The diagnosis of the deep vein thrombosis (DVT) based exclusively on its symptomatology and on the examination clinic is of few usefulness due to its small sensibility and especificity. However, its adequate combination with the presence of risk factors for the thrombosis, and the existence or not of an alternative diagnosis, it can be employed it to classify to the patients according to the forecast model clinic of DVT of Wells in two categories: high or probability decrease of suffering it. Their utilization in urgencies together with the determination of the D dimer (DD) will indicate us the need or not of accomplishing an echo -- Doppler, currently the complementary election test. The phlebography is maintained as "the gold test", though is reservation for certain cases. Unless exceptions, the heparins of under molecular weight have displaced the heparins not fractioned in the treatment of the disease, due to the series of inconvenients that present: complications hemorrhagics, thrombocytopenia, need of hospitalization and of biological control. It is possible, that in a future most or less next new antithrombotics, as the fondaparinux or the ximelagatran change substantially the treatment of the DVT. The indication of the ...Continue Reading

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