Articles | Open Access
Vol. 5 No. 10 (2018)
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Page No.: 4089-4091 |
https://doi.org/10.18535/ijmsci/v5i10.03
Associate professor Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
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Awad Elkhadir
Associate professor Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
Assistant professor faculty of medicine radiology department King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia
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Mohammad Wazzan
Assistant professor faculty of medicine radiology department King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia
Assistant professor faculty of medicine radiology department King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
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Ahmed Abduljabbar
Assistant professor faculty of medicine radiology department King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
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Nawaf Meshal Badwi
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
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Faisal Mohammed Hendi
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
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Khaled Mohammed Al-Shomrani
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
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Abdullmola Atwan Al-Malawi
Student Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences King Abdulaziz University Jeddah - Saudi Arabia.
Abstract
Objective: To study the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of all adult patients scanned by Doppler ultrasound in the Department of Vascular Imaging (DVI) at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH) in Jeddah for patients who suspected to have DVT over a period of three years.
Methods: Retrospective study which included all the suspected cases of DVT visited KAUH during the period between January 2013 to December 2015.
Results: 1201 patients of patients were diagnosed to have DVT with mean age of54.8±19.8 years. There were 708 females and 493males. Doppler ultrasound detected 186 (15.7%) DVT. 76.2% was found symptomatic such as pain, swelling and edema. Elderly has been found to be the most common risk factor 425 (27.09%).
Conclusion: A high incidence of DVT in Jeddah 15.7 % and females were affected more than males.
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Awad Elkhadir,
Mohammad Wazzan,
Ahmed Abduljabbar,
Nawaf Meshal Badwi,
Faisal Mohammed Hendi,
Khaled Mohammed Al-Shomrani,
Abdullmola Atwan Al-Malawi, this is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
