Sentences with phrase «venous blood clots»

FDA adding general warning to testosterone products about potential for venous blood clots.

Speaking of women's health, how about the very high risks of arterial and venous blood clots for those young women on the pill?

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An international study of 3,396 patients with venous thromboembolism in 31 countries shows that the blood thinner rivaroxaban is just as safe as aspirin and more effective at preventing blood clots.

At least one out of 1,000 Canadians will experience one of these blood clots every year, a condition called venous thromboembolism.

However, after autologous reconstruction — creation of a new breast using the patient's own tissues — the risk of blood clot - related complications called venous thromboembolism (VTE) was significantly higher for older women.

However, findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), indicate that long - term risk of heart attack did not persist, while the risk for venous thromboembolism — blood clot in veins and lungs — remained years after the procedure.

With an emphasis on prevention, we treat children with deep vein thrombosis (DVT, blood clots in the limbs), pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung), sinus venous thrombosis (blood clot in the brain), and arterial thrombosis.

These medications by themselves pose an increased risk of blood clots (i.e., venous thrombosis), but this risk is even greater when they are used by individuals with certain inherited risk factors for blood clotting disorders.

Description: Venous thrombosis (VT) is the formation of a blood clot in the veins that can potentially lead to thromboembolism (i.e., the blocking of a blood vessel by a portion of the clot that has broken away from it).

For example, oral estrogen in birth control pills is the cause of blood clots, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary emboli and stroke in young women.

-- Saturated fats (found in meat, dairy products, butter, or margarines) in experimental animal studies increased both venous and arterial blood clots.

Venous thromboembolisms — the life - threatening condition that happens when a blood clot breaks loose — are rare in healthy people.

This stagnation allows the venous blood to clot within the vein, with that clot or thrombus rapidly growing up the vein until blood flow is adequate to prevent its further extension.