Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

UNTIL such time as the hospital laboratory can detect the presence of abnormal venous clotting, the appraisal and management of patients harboring venous thrombi must remain at the clinical level. Improvement in the use of present chief therapeutic methods — anticoagulant drugs and venous division — can come only from studies of treated cases, with particular emphasis on therapeutic failures.This report reviews the experience with 482 cases of venous thromboembolism treated at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from October, 1949, through March, 1956. Four hundred and seventeen of these cases were in surgical patients. These included 51 presenting with . . .