Handbook of venous thromboembolism - Thachil, Jecko; Bagot, Catherine (West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
Section I Clinical Overview 1 -- 1 Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism 3 / Peter E. Rose -- 2 Management of Venous Thrombosis in the Lower Limbs 13 / Dan Horner -- 3 Clinical Presentation of Acute Pulmonary Embolism 21 / C.E.A. Dronkers, M.V. Huisman and F.A. Klok -- *Section II Diagnosis 27 -- 4 Clinical Prediction Scores 29 / Kerstin de Wit and Lana A. Castellucci -- 5 Laboratory Aspects in Diagnosis and Management of Venous Thromboembolism 35 / Giuseppe Lippi and Emmanuel J. Favaloro -- 6 Thrombophilia Testing 49 / Massimo Franchini -- 7 Radiological Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism 55 / Joachim E. Wildberger and Marco Das -- 8 The Antiphospholipid Syndrome 60 / Karen Breen -- *Section III Treatment 67 -- 9 Inpatient or Outpatient Anticoagulation 69 / Lauren Floyd and Jecko Thachil -- 10 An Anticoagulant Service in Practice 73 / Kathy Macintosh, Dawn Kyle and Linda Smith -- 11 Point of Care Testing 86 / Dianne Patricia Kitchen -- 12 Direct Oral Anticoagulants in the Prevention and Management of Venous Thromboembolism 94 / Yen-Lin Chee and Henry G. Watson -- 13 The Role of Thrombolysis in the Management of Venous Thromboembolism 102 -- Carlos J. Guevara and Suresh Vedantham -- 14 Inferior Vena Cava Filters in the Management of Venous Thromboembolism 114 / Anita Rajasekhar and Molly W. Mandernach -- *Section IV Special Situations 129 -- 15 VTE in Pregnancy 131 / Catherine Nelson Piercy -- 16 Paediatric Venous Thromboembolism 145 / Paul Monagle and Rebecca Barton -- 17 Cancer-associated Thrombosis 153 / Simon Noble -- 18 Venous Thromboembolism Management in Obese Patients 161 / Kathryn Lang and Jignesh Patel -- 19 Venous Thromboembolism in Intensive Care 169 / Gill Parmilan and Jecko Thachil -- 20 Venous Thromboembolism; a Primary Care Perspective 174 / David Fitzmaurice -- *Section V Unusual Site Thrombosis 181 -- 21 Cerebral Venous Thrombosis 183 / Christian Weimar -- 22 Upper Extremity Thrombosis 192 / Scott M. Stevens and Scott C. Woller -- 23 Management of Intra-abdominal Thrombosis 205 / Serena M. Passamonti, Francesca Gianniello and Ida Martinelli -- 24 Thrombosis in the Retinal Circulation 216 / Wenlan Zhang and Paul Hahn -- *Section VI Long-term Sequelae of VTE 229 -- 25 Post-thrombotic Syndrome 231 / Andrew Busuttil and Alun H. Davies -- 26 Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension 240 / Demosthenes G. Papamatheakis and William R. Auger -- 27 Predicting Recurrent VTE 255 / R. Campbell Tait -- *Section VII Controversies 263 -- 28 Cancer Screening in Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism 265 / David Keeling -- 29 Sub-segmental and Incidental PE & ndash; to Treat or Not? 269 -- Jecko Thachil -- 30 Management of Distal Vein Thrombosis 273 / Giuseppe Camporese and Enrico Bernardi -- *Section VIII Prevention 281 -- 31 A Summary of the Evidence for VTE Prevention, with a Focus on the Controversies 283 / Catherine Bagot -- 32 VTE Prevention: Real World Practice 293 / Emma Gee -- 33 VTE Root Cause Analysis & ndash; How To Do It 301 / Alison Moughton, Francesca Jones and Will Lester.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (John Wiley, viewed January 16, 2018).
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