is Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rare and potentially deadly condition. Common etiologies include hypercoagulable diseases, low flow states, dehydration, adjacent infectious ...

Other factors such as being overweight or obese, suffering from dehydration or any disease that restricts mobility (especially as you age) puts you at an increased risk of DVT. Ultrasound ...

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients—not from other organ sites, as previously ...

A recent study from New York University has found that platelets, the tiny fragments in our blood that help with clotting, ...

Blood clots can form both in the heart's chamber (intracardiac thrombosis) and the coronary arteries that feed the heart (coronary artery thrombosis).A blood clot in the heart's chambers can break ...

As in other disease settings, low D-dimer levels ... whether the D-dimer assay will remain simply a tool to rule out thrombosis in symptomatic patients with SLE or whether it could eventually ...

There are three main risk factors for DVT: sticky blood, vein damage and immobility. Sticky blood can be caused by illness, old age, pregnancy and medication while vein damage can result from ...

Other factors such as being overweight or obese, suffering from dehydration or any disease that restricts mobility (especially as you age) puts you at an increased risk of DVT. Ultrasound ...

It's called deep vein thrombosis, or DVT. All our veins have small valves powered by the muscles around them. They keep blood moving toward the heart, instead of flowing backward inside veins.