Diagnosis and Management of Early Deep Vein Thrombosis
Figs. 1 and 2 Illustration of diagnostic approach for suspected DVT 3.1 The Wells Score NICE recommend the use of the two-level DVT Wells score to estimate the clinical probability…
Prophylaxis for Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Md. Shahidul Islam (ed.)Thrombosis and Embolism: from Research to Clinical PracticeAdvances in Experimental Medicine and Biology90610.1007/5584_2016_101 Thromboembolic Prophylaxis for Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery Jaime Ruiz-Tovar1 and Carolina Llavero2…
Use of Surgical Care Improvement Projects in Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Md. Shahidul Islam (ed.)Thrombosis and Embolism: from Research to Clinical PracticeAdvances in Experimental Medicine and Biology90610.1007/5584_2016_102 The Use of Surgical Care Improvement Projects in Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism…
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Surgical Patients
Fig. 1 Virchow’s triad (Virchow’s triad: thrombosis adviser) Table 1 Risk factors for VTE (Rashid et al. 2005) Over 60 years age Critical care admission Dehydration Known thrombophilias Obesity (body mass…
Therapy by Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Pulmonary Embolism
“Absolute” contraindications: Ongoing bleeding or recent severe bleeding Known bleeding diseases Intracranial bleeding or previous intracranial bleeding Structural intracranial cerebrovascular diseases that increase risk for bleeding (e.g., aneurysm) Some malignant…
Clinical Presentation and Basic Work up in Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
Acute onset dyspnea 80 % Gradual onset dyspnea 3 % Orthopnea 0.4 % Chest pain 49 % Syncope 24 % Hemoptysis 6 % As discussed below, although these symptoms are often due to serious disease, they…
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas
(20.1) In this formalism, the distribution of square displacements of free water molecules is Gaussian, with the probability of displacing at a given distance from the origin being the same,…
Biomathematical Modeling of DLGG
that is, evolution with time of tumor cell density (c) at each position in the brain = proliferation (ρc) + diffusion (∇.(D∇c)). The direct problem consists to compute this equation…
Resection Probability Maps of Glioma
Fig. 32.1 The resection probability map in three orthogonal sections for left-sided and right-sided nonenhancing gliomas based on 234 patients. The color legend corresponds with the resection probability as indicated….
Surgery for Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas (DLGG) Functional Ouctomes
Fig. 24.1 The main association and projection fascicles demonstrated in anatomic dissections were summarized and were colored for an easier recognition. Green = IFOF; Violet = uncinate fascicle; Blue =…
