PREVALENCE OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM AMONG POST SCLEROTHERAPY PATIENTS

Abstract

Venous thrombo-embolism (VTE) is one of the most common and yet highly preventable cause of in-hospital death. VTE includes the manifestation of deep vein thrombosis and its fatal complication pulmonary embolism. To assess the development of VTE among post sclerotherapy patients, a descriptive retrospective research design was adopted. Random sampling technique was used to select 1000 post sclerotherapy patients who were undergone review for 3 months. The results depicted that most of the samples fell under the age group between 50 and 60 years, body mass index more than 25Kg/m2 and majority were females. Only 5 samples were detected with symptoms of venous thromboembolism and were not having significant relationship with age, sex and body mass index.