ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2015
The "Pregnancy Health-care Program" for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in pregnancy.
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- Thromboprophylaxis during pregnancy and the puerperium: a systematic review and economic evaluation to estimate the value of future research.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Risk assessment models for venous thromboembolism in pregnancy and in the puerperium: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
- American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: venous thromboembolism in the context of pregnancy.Blood advances · 2018Guideline
- The Effect of Wearing Elastic Compression Stockings on Leg Edema in Pregnant Women in Late Pregnancy as Determined by Measuring the Deep Venous Velocity and Flow.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pregnancy-Related Thromboembolism-Current Challenges at the Emergency Department.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Development and validation of a facile rapid assessment scale for perinatal venous thromboembolism in puerperium in Chinese women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
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- Venous Thromboembolism Risk Score and Pregnancy.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- Positive perception and efficacy of compression stockings for prevention of lower limb edema in pregnant women.Jornal vascular brasileiro · 2022Article
- Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in 2020 and Beyond.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Adequacy of Prophylaxis in High Risk Pregnancy in the Arabian Gulf.Current vascular pharmacology · 2016Observational
- Can we program VTE prevention in pregnancy?Internal and emergency medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), i.e., deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, are among the main causes of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy with an estimated incidence of 1 per thousand women years. Recommendations on antithrombotic prophylaxis are weak. The aim of the "Pregnancy Health-care Program" (PHP) was to evaluate the individual risk of VTE in a cohort of pregnant women, and manage them with the aim of reducing the rate of VTE. The study was conducted from Jan 2008 to Dec 2010 in the hospital and obstetrical outclinics in Cremona, Italy, and included 1,787 pregnant women who received clinical observation (n = 1,197), above-knee compression stockings (n = 437) or compression stockings and low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) (n = 85) depending on their individual VTE risk, evaluated with a risk score (0.5-3.0) derived from the relative risk estimates of a number of risk factors. Visits were scheduled at the end of each trimester and at hospital discharge after delivery. No VTE occurred, but one superficial vein thrombosis was observed 3 days after vaginal delivery in a woman who received clinical observation (0.6 per thousand). No bleeding was observed in LMWH users. The PHP based on stratification of individual VTE risk resulted in a low incidence of VTE events.
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