Evaluation of Risk Factors in Individuals with Vascular Thrombosis at High Altitude
| Autor: | Atif Latif, Qurrat-ul- Ain, Muhammad Zaman, Manzoor Qadir, Sajid Ali Shah |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Vol 74, Iss 3 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0030-9648 2411-8842 |
| DOI: | 10.51253/pafmj.v74i3.8802 |
| Popis: | Objective: To evaluate the risk factors for developing vascular thrombosis at high altitude. Study Design: Prospective longitudinal study. Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital, Skardu Pakistan, from Mar 2018 to Feb 2020. Methodology: All individuals evacuated from high altitude with suspicion of vascular thrombosis were consecutively inducted and evaluated radiologically. Subjects diagnosed as VT were further categorized on basis of height of evacuation into high altitude, very high altitude and extremely high altitude categories. Results: Out of 295 individuals evacuated from HA, 54(18.3%) were diagnosed as VT. All patients were males. Mean age was 31+5.3 years. Cerebral venous thrombosis was diagnosed in 19(35%) and was the most frequent followed by pulmonary embolism in 18(33%) and deep venous thrombosis in 14(26%) patients. Risk of VT increased with increase in altitude as 05(10%) cases were from high altitude, 18(33%) were from very high altitude and 31(57%) from extremely high altitude. VT was more frequent in smokers [36 cases (67%), p |
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