Despite receiving blood thinners and other clot prevention treatment, some patients still develop potentially lethal blood clots in the first month after their operations anyway, especially if they developed a surgical-site infection while in the hospital, according to results of a study at Johns Hopkins. The research, published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, found that patients who experience a surgical-site infection after their abdominal surgery are four times more likely than infection-free patients to develop a deep-vein thrombosis in the legs, or its more deadly cousin, a pulmonary embolism in the lungs. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Monn MF, et al. Is Venous Thromboembolism in Colorectal Surgery Patients Preventable or Inevitable? One Institution's Experience. J Am Coll Surg. 2013 Jan 9. pii: S1072-7515(12)01394-4. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23312467
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