Assessment of additional risk factors for deep vein thrombosis in patients with various malignancies

• Published in: Human & veterinary medicine Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 17 - 19
• Main Authors: Vesa, Ştefan C, Macarie, Antonia E, Vlaicu, Sonia I, Micu, Bogdan, Buzoianu, Anca D, Crişan, Sorin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cluj-Napoca Bioflux SRL 01-03-2016
• Subjects: Age; Cancer; Cancer therapies; Chemotherapy; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Edema; Embolisms; Health risk assessment; Heart diseases; Heart failure; Hospitals; Immobilization; Internal medicine; Medicine; Mortality; Multivariate analysis; Patients; Pharmacy; Risk factors; Software; Surgery; Thromboembolism; Thrombosis; Variables; Romania
• ISSN: 2066-7655; 2066-7663

Aim: to analyze the additional risk factors of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients with a positive oncological history. Material and methods: The included 62 patients (29 (46.8%) women and 33 (53.2%) men) diagnosed with various cancers. The median age was 73.5 (68.75; 81) years. Patients were divided in two groups, the first group comprised 40 patients with DVT and the second group comprised 22 patients without DVT. The following risk factors for DVT were recorded for each patient: age, gender, varicose veins, history of bed rest longer than 3 days, bilateral lower limb edema, infections, chemotherapy, history of DVT, and other comorbidities such as: heart failure and diabetes mellitus. Results: History of DVT and the bed rest for more than 3 days were associated in univariate analysis with an increased risk of DVT in patients with cancer, and the prior enhanced the risk of DVT in multivariate analysis. Conclusion: History of DVT was an additional risk factor for DVT in patients with cancer.