photo results | Deep-vein thrombosis | Deep-vein thrombosis (also known as deep-venous thrombosis or DVT and colloquially as economy class syndrome) is the formation of a blood clot ("thrombus") in a deep vein. It commonly affects the leg veins, such as the femoral vein or the popliteal vein or the deep veins of the pelvis. Occasionally the veins of the arm are affected (known as Paget-Schrötter disease . Thrombophlebitis is the more general class of pathologies of this kind. There is a significant risk of the thrombus embolizing and traveling to the lungs causing a pulmonary embolism. | |
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discussion results tirtha9 (434) | | And you thought that desk-bound jobs only expanded your waistline. According to a new study, office workers who sit at a desk for eight hours a day and spend more than three hours without stretching... | |
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 saierchok (641) | | International Journal of Impotence Research reported a patient who developed deep vein thrombosis of the calf and thrombophlebitis after treatment with intracorporeal alprostadil (Viridal). The... | |
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 kabspaceway (11) | | the only vein which is divived into branches? | |
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 kabspaceway (11) | | Why the Hydatid cyst are common in the right lobe of the liver and in the lower lobe of right lung? if it is surgicaly removed, why there is more possiblities for recurrence? | |
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 zugedanit (1946) | | Are there valves in the veins AND the arteries or are they only in veins? | |
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