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...experts, are people with an inherited predisposition to blood clots?folks who have suffered previous incidents of thrombosis or who have close family members with a history of the disease. But other factors can also increase the likelihood of DVT. Age is important, says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at Newcastle?s Freeman Hospital. A person in his mid-20s has a less than one-in-10,000 chance of developing DVT; by 75, the risk is closer to one in 1,000. Also at higher risk: people who have suffered or are suffering from cancer, women taking contraceptive pills...
...from DVT developed on long-haul flights. A survey of passenger accidents at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport revealed that from 1994 to 1998, DVT-related incidents accounted for 27% of all first aid treatment. "It's the sitting still that does the damage," says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, northern England. "And the one place that 99% of us sit still longest, in the most discomfort, is on an airplane...
...Munich University have been collaborating on this research for about the last two years. Hiddemann, a hematologist, met with Tenen in Grainau, Germany for their first workshop last month...
...Munich University have been collaborating on this research for about the last two years. Hiddemann, a hematologist, met with Tenen in Grainau, Germany for their first workshop last month...
...hematologist, I face that problem every day when a patient turns up with some blood abnormality--say, a low white count--and then is found to have taken drug A or drug B, though nowadays many are down to P or Q--and I am not speaking of recreational drugs...