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Arterial and venous thromboembolism are both more common in older adults. The use of anticoagulants, the mainstay to prevent thromboembolism, requires consideration of the balance between risk and benefit. Such consideration is even more important in the very elderly in whom the risk of anticoagulant-related bleeding and thrombosis are higher.
1 lis 2007 · Despite significant knowledge of risk factors, such as surgery, trauma, neurologic disability, cancer, hospitalization for medical illness, oral contraceptives, and pregnancy and the puerperium, 2-4 annual death rates from VTE remain high and VTE is likely the most common cause of preventable death in hospitalized patients. 5 One of the least ...
9 lip 2010 · Women have a higher life expectancy than men, leading to a sex-ratio in favour of women in the elderly population. As no sex-difference is reported for the risk of thrombosis in the general population, this will lead to a higher proportion of women among elderly patients with VT.
4 gru 2009 · Compared with incidence rates without surgery, women were 40 times more likely to develop venous thromboembolism during the week after an inpatient operation (relative risk 40.3, 30.7 to 52.8), rising to 110 times more likely during the third postoperative week (112.5, 95.3 to 132.8).
11 lut 2023 · EVT for elderly patients is technically feasible and safe. In a meta‐analysis of 17 studies, Hilditch et al 8 reported that for patients 80 years or older who underwent EVT for LVO strokes, 78% of patients achieved successful recanalization and 27% had good neurological outcomes.
1 paź 2010 · Rates are shown by 1000 per year, for man in open bars, for women in closed bars. *Adapted from Naess et al. (2007). The incidence of VT is similar for men and women indicating that, given the excess of women in the old age groups (http://www.census.gov), most elderly patients with VT are women.
6 cze 2014 · Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism are major causes of morbidity and mortality in patients during hospitalization; previous studies have proposed that an advanced age of more than 60 years is a risk factor for these conditions.
