Fatal Pulmonary Embolism following Achilles Tendon Repair: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature

Table 1

Reported incidence of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in patients treated surgically (S) and nonsurgically (N-S) for Achilles tendon rupture.

Author(s) and date of publication	Number of patients included in the study	Surgical intervention (S)/nonsurgical intervention (N-S)	Incidence of deep vein thrombosis (%)	Incidence of pulmonary embolism (%)
Lo et al. (1997) [4]	949	S = 701/N-S = 248	S = 0.14/N-S = 1.6	S = 0/N-S = 0.40
Ingvar et al. (2005) [5]	196	N-S = 196	N-S = 3.6	N-S = 0.51
Lapidus et al. (2007) [6]	91	S = 91	S = 35	S = 0
Nilsson-Helander et al. (2009) [7]	95	S = 49/N-S = 46	S = 34	S = 3.2
Healy et al. (2010) [8]	208	S = 208	S = 6.3	S = 2.4
Saragas and Ferrao (2011) [12]	88	S = 88	S = 5.7	S = 1.1
Patel et al. (2012) [9]	1172	S = 472/N-S = 700	S = 0.42/N-S = 0.43	S = 0.21/N-S = 0.43
Makhdom et al. (2013) [10]	115	S = 115	S = 23.47	S = 0.8