Evaluation of the risk factors for venous thromboembolism post splenectomy – A ten year retrospective cohort study in St James’s hospital

BACKGROUND: Splenectomy is a surgical intervention for a variety of indications; benign and malignant. Complications of this procedure include Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and infection. The incidence of VTE post-surgery has been reported between 0.8%–3% depending on the type of surgery. A higher in...

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Autores principales: Abduljalil, Manal, Saunders, Jean, Doherty, Dearbhla, Dicks, Marthinus, Maher, Catherine, Mehigan, Brian, Flavin, Richard, Flynn, Catherine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Cohort Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34026114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102381

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