Comparative study to establish significance of D-dimer, lipid profile and homocysteine level in cases of deep vein thrombosis

Abstract

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) affects approximately 0.1% of persons per year. The incidence is much lower in the young and higher in the elderly. Although many patients develop DVT in the presence of risk factors, such as malignancy and immobility, DVT can also occur without obvious provocation (idiopathic DVT). One of the dominant characteristics of this disease is that for every symptomatic pulmonary embolism diagnosed, there are 2.5 cases of venous thrombo-embolism (VTE) that we are not able to identify. Moreover, 40 to 60% of the deaths from VTE occurs in patients whom lacked a previous diagnosis of DVT, and 20% of the patients have a sudden death secondary to massive embolism as their first and only symptom. 1 VTE events remain a relatively common cause of death in hospitalized patients and almost 75 per cent of all VTE-related deaths are from hospital-acquired ABSTRACT