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Does the clinical presentation and extent of venous thrombosis predict likelihood and type of recurrence? A patient-level meta-analysis.
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH - 1 Nov 2010
Baglin T, Douketis J, Tosetto A, Marcucci M, Cushman M, Kyrle P, Palareti G, Poli D, Tait R C, Iorio A
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AIM: To determine if the mode of presentation of venous thromboembolism (VTE), as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE), predicts the likelihood and type of recurrence. METHODS: We carried out a patient-level meta-analysis of seven prospective studies in patients with a first VTE who were followed after anticoagulation was stopped. We used Kaplan-Meier analysis to determine the cumulative...
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