Arterial and venous thrombosis differences and similarities
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| ICD-10 | I80-I82 |
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| ICD-9 | 437.6, 453, 671.5, 671.9 |
| MeSH | D013927 |
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Thrombosis Microchapters |
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Site of Thrombosis |
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Differentiating Thrombosis from other Diseases |
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Diagnosis |
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Treatment |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editors-in-Chief: Ujjwal Rastogi, MBBS [2]
Overview
More than a century ago, Virchow postulated that a triad of conditions (later called Virchow's triad) leads to Thrombus formation. Traditionally, Venous thrombosis has been associated with red blood cell and fibrin rich red clot while Arterial thrombosis occur on atherosclerotic lesions with active inflammation, and are rich in platelets and give an appearance of white clot [1].
Similarities
The two vascular complications, venous and arterial thrombosis, share many risk factors such as:
- Age
- Obesity
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypertension
- Hypertriglyceridemia
- Metabolic syndrome.
Furthermore there are many diseases that causes both arterial and venous thrombosis, such as:
- Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome,
- Hyperhomocysteinemia,
- Malignancies,
- Infections,
- Hormonal treatment.
References
- ↑ Jerjes-Sanchez C (2005). "Venous and arterial thrombosis: a continuous spectrum of the same disease?". Eur Heart J. 26 (1): 3–4. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi041. PMID 15615791.