Causes of deep vein thrombosis and preventive measures, here's all you need to know
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00:00DBT which is deep vein thrombosis is diagnosed by 4 factors, number 1 is the history, number
00:122 the clinical examination findings, number 3 the blood test which is a D-dimer and number
00:184 is the Doppler scan.
00:21Last week we had a 30 year old female who is on oral contraceptive fills for the contraception
00:26purpose with a swollen left lower limb, we did a Doppler scan and it showed left lower
00:32limb iliac vein DVT.
00:34DVT in simple terms is deep vein thrombosis which is formation of blood clot usually in
00:41the legs.
00:42This patient after the diagnosis of left lower limb iliac vein DVT, we subjected her to the
00:47catheter of intervention of IVC filter deployment and then clot aspiration and catheter directed
00:54thrombosis.
00:55Usually this DVT treatment takes 2 to 3 days hospital admission time and here this patient
01:02she was discharged after 3 days with maintenance blood thinners.
01:07Now the patient is doing well and she has resumed her job and she is on regular follow
01:12up check up with us.