or patients undergoing bariatric surgery, use of prophylactic inferior vena cava filters is associated with worse clinical outcomes and increased use of health care resources.
Heat therapy can improve functional ability and also has potential to be an effective cardiovascular conditioning tool for people with peripheral arterial disease.
Investigators assessed the risk for venous thromboembolism in patients with gout and evaluated how disease duration, hospital admission and urate-lowering therapy influence this risk.
Patients with severe sickle cell disease were more than twice as likely to experience recurrent thromboembolism compared with patients with less severe disease.
