OBJECTIVE: Lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (LEDVT) is common and can lead to pulmonary embolism (PE). Currently

 

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (LEDVT) is common and can lead to pulmonary embolism (PE). Currently, the mechanism of how LEDVT causes PE is unclear. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between the thrombus sites and PE in LEDVT patients.

METHODS: A retrospective study that included the medical data of 3101 patients aged >18 years who were diagnosed with LEDVT by duplex ultrasound was performed at The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University from 2008 to 2017. The clinical information of the patients was collected. According to the thrombosis sites, the patients were divided into three groups. We determined the cumulative prevalence and prevalence rate of PE between the groups and used Cox proportional hazard regression models, which were stratified on matched sets, to calculate the hazard ratios (HRs) for all of the outcomes of interest. We focused on the relationship of proximal or isolated distal LEDVT with PE and also analyzed the relationship of the left side or right side of LEDVT with PE.

RESULTS: A total of 1629 (52.5%) patients had left LEDVT (group 1), 912 (29.4%) patients had right LEDVT (group 2), and 560 (18.1%) patients had bilateral LEDVT (group 3). The rate of PE was higher in group 2 than in group 1, although there were more patients suffering from LEDVT in group 1 than in group 2 (P < .001). The patients with proximal LEDVT in group 3 exhibited a greater risk of PE compared with those with isolated distal LEDVT (adjusted HR, 2.79; 95% confidence interval, 1.42-5.49). We also observed that the proportion of patients with proximal LEDVT who were receiving treatment was much higher than that of patients with distal LEDVT (P < .05). The patients with right LEDVT had a higher risk of PE than the patients with left LEDVT (adjusted HR, 1.60; 95% confidence interval, 1.15-2.21), and the patients with right LEDVT had more comorbidities, such as malignant neoplasms, hypertension, and diabetes (P < .001).

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with proximal bilateral LEDVT had a higher likelihood for development of PE than did patients with distal LEDVT, which may be associated with inadequate therapy for proximal bilateral LEDVT. PE was more likely to develop with right-sided LEDVT because these patients had more comorbidities in our study.

PMID: 32063525 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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