Solid Tumor Complicated With Venous Thromboembolism: A 10-Year Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), including pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) occurs more frequently in cancer patients than in the general population. A retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out in patients with solid tumor complicated with VTE admitted to the Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology between January 1st, 2008 and December 31th, 2017. The incidence of VTE in hospitalized cancer patients was 1.8%, twice the incidence of VTE in hospitalized non-cancer patients. The annual incidence of cancer-associated VTE in our center varied between 1.6% in 2015 and 0.4% in 2009 with an overall average incidence of 1.3% over the research decade. BMI values of 549(67.7%) cancer patients were within the no

SUBMITTER: Peng M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7894580 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature