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Deep Venous Thrombosis after Strokes in Chinese
Author(s) -
Tso S. C.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1980.tb04968.x
Subject(s) - medicine , venous thrombosis , incidence (geometry) , pulmonary embolism , thrombosis , hemiparesis , stroke (engine) , intracranial thrombosis , cardiology , surgery , angiography , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , engineering
Summary: In 35 Chinese patients suffering from strokes resulting in hemiparesis or hemiplegia, deep venous thrombosis, as detected with 125 /‐fibrinogen scan, occurred in the paralysed leg in five and in the normal leg in one. The total incidence of 17% was lower than that reported in the West. No clinical evidence of pulmonary embolism was seen. This report represents an objective confirmation of the low incidence of venous thrombosis in the Chinese.