1. Incidence of postoperative venous thromboembolism after thoracic surgery and its characteristic: a single center, prospective cohort study
Chunfeng SONG ; Hui LI ; Bo TIAN ; Shuo CHEN ; Jingbai MIAO ; Yili FU ; Bin YOU ; Qirui CHEN ; Tong LI ; Xiaoxing HU ; Wenqian ZHANG ; Bin HU
Chinese Journal of Surgery 2018;56(4):284-288
Objective:
To evaluate the incidence of postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) after thoracic surgery and its characteristic.
Methods:
This was a single-center, prospective cohort study. Patients undergoing major thoracic surgeries between July 2016 and March 2017 at Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University were enrolled in this study. Besides the routine examination, all patients were screened for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) by using noninvasive duplex lower-extremity ultrasonography after surgery. CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) was carried out if patients had one of the following conditions including typical symptoms of PE, high Caprini score (>9 points) or new diagnosed postoperative DVT. Caprini risk assessment model was used to detect high risk patients. No patients received any prophylaxis of VTE before surgery. Further data was analyzed for identifying the incidence of postoperative VTE. The