Research Article
Sonographic and Clinical Features of Upper Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis in Critical Care Patients
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of the study population.
| | Characteristics | Patients |
| | Age (years) | 51 ± 15.5 | | Gender (male/female ratio) | 0.52 ± 0.4 | | APACHE II score | 20.2 ± 3.1 | | Diagnosis upon admission | | | Trauma | 205 (64%) | | Burn | 12 (3.75%) | | ARDS | 26 (8.12%) | | Sepsis | 48 (15%) | | Postsurgical complications | 29 (9.13%) | | Body mass index (kg/m2) | 27.2 ± 10.3 | | Anatomic vascular abnormality (%) | 6 (1.87%) | | Untreated coagulopathy (%) | 0 (0%) | | Prophylactic treatment with LMWH (%) | 320 (100%) | | Hypercoagulable state (%) | 16 (5%) | | Malignancy (%) | 23 (7.18%) | | Total number of UEDVT (%) | 36 (11.25%) | | Central venous catheters | 177 (55.3%) | | Other intravascular devices | 16 (5%) | | Days of hospitalization | 59 ± 26 |
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Abbreviations are: APACHE II: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation score; ARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome; LMWH: low molecular weight heparin; UEDVT: upper extremity deep venous thrombosis.
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