Prevention of venous thromboembolism in elderly patients
10.16352/j.issn.1001-6325.2024.07.0916
- VernacularTitle:老年患者静脉血栓栓塞症的预防
- Author:
Mengxi DING
1
;
Chunmei WANG
Author Information
1. 首都医科大学宣武医院全科医学科,北京 100053
- Keywords:
elderly patient;
venous thromboembolism;
prevention
- From:
Basic & Clinical Medicine
2024;44(7):916-920
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Venous thromboembolism(VTE)is a common disease with high morbidity and mortality.The incidence and mortality of VTE are higher in elderly patients and increased level of D-dimer,a thrombosis marker is positively related with age.Therefore,the diagnostic threshold needs to be adjusted to screen VTE with D-dimer level.Elderly patients may still have VTE after implementation of anticoagulant prevention,and increasing age is a high risk factor for bleeding after anticoagulant prevention.Whether elderly patients need to be monitored for anticoagulant prevention of VTE,and the relationship between age and VTE recurrence remains to be determined.In-depth re-search on the prevention of VTE in elderly patients and exploration of innovative VTE prevention strategies may ori-ent future research.
