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This provokes secondary inflammatory reaction, which gradually covers the thrombus, venous wall and adjacent tissues.

The reasons may be traumas, malignant lesions, severe and/or prolonged surgical interventions (neurosurgical, orthopaedic, urologic, etc.), grave lesions, which fix the patients in the bed (heart failure, insult, etc.), blood lesions or deviations in blood coagulation, advanced age, in women – use of contraceptives, pregnancy, delivery and abortion.

The main symptoms of the lesion are related to pain, heat edema of extremity with cyanotic staining of skin. It is moving hardly, strenuous, warm. Edema does not subside after rest. Tachycardia and subfebrility are noticed.

Thrombi in deep veins are not connected with the vascular wall. They may  detach from their place and migrate into the heart direction and cause pulmonary thromboemboly.

 

In deep venous thrombosis, by Doppler exam explicitly may be placed or rejected the diagnosis and therefore it is compulsory one.

 

Treatment is by medicines.