A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching

Pulmonary embolus (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are diagnoses that are commonly made in the emergency department. Well known risk factors for thromboembolic events include immobility, malignancy, pregnancy, surgery, and acquired or inherited thrombophilias, obesity, cigarette smoking, and hypertensi...

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Autores principales: Lucerna, Alan, Espinosa, James, Ackley, Lindsey, Carhart, Philip, Stranges, Douglas, Hertz, Risha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29109889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9347693
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author Lucerna, Alan
Espinosa, James
Ackley, Lindsey
Carhart, Philip
Stranges, Douglas
Hertz, Risha
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description Pulmonary embolus (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are diagnoses that are commonly made in the emergency department. Well known risk factors for thromboembolic events include immobility, malignancy, pregnancy, surgery, and acquired or inherited thrombophilias, obesity, cigarette smoking, and hypertension. We present a case of a 59-year-old female who watched TV and developed leg swelling and was found to have PE and DVT.
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spelling pubmed-56463512017-11-06 A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching Lucerna, Alan Espinosa, James Ackley, Lindsey Carhart, Philip Stranges, Douglas Hertz, Risha Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Pulmonary embolus (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are diagnoses that are commonly made in the emergency department. Well known risk factors for thromboembolic events include immobility, malignancy, pregnancy, surgery, and acquired or inherited thrombophilias, obesity, cigarette smoking, and hypertension. We present a case of a 59-year-old female who watched TV and developed leg swelling and was found to have PE and DVT. Hindawi 2017 2017-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5646351/ /pubmed/29109889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9347693 Text en Copyright © 2017 Alan Lucerna et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lucerna, Alan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29109889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9347693
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