ThrombosisClinic.com is a continuing medical education resource for health care professionals emphasizing the latest in emerging approaches in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of thrombosis.

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• Diagnosis and Treatment of VTE, DVT, and PE
  This American Journal of Medicine Update provides clinicians with a comprehensive up-to-date review of the clinical presentation, diagnostic modalities, and treatment guidelines for low- and intermediate-risk (nonmassive) PE. The update also describes diagnostic measures and current and evolving treatment strategies for DVT, defines massive and submassive PE, discusses risk-stratification tools for patients with submassive PE, and reviews the latest data on the efficacy of thrombolysis in different risk-stratification groups.
  
  
• Choosing a Treatment Strategy for the NSTE-ACS Patient: Early Invasive vs Initial Conservative Therapy
  This interactive case study of a 53-year-old man who presents to the emergency department with chest pain demonstrates how to use presenting symptoms and results of laboratory tests to select a management strategy.
  
  
• Risk Stratification for Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Patients
  In this update to the American Journal of Medicine, Judd Hollander, MD, MPH, Professor and Clinical Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, reviews the current literature on venous thromboembolism risk and methods to risk-stratify hospitalized patients.
  
  

• Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary-artery bypass grafting for severe coronary artery disease
  Serruys PW, Morice MC, Kappetein AP, et al.
  
  N Engl J Med. 2009 Mar 5;360(10):961-72
  
  
• Early Stent Thrombosis in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes Treated With Drug-Eluting and Bare Metal Stents. The Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage Strategy Trial
  Aoki J, Lansky AJ, Mehran R, et al.
  
  Circulation. 2009 Jan 26
  
  
• Time course of events in acute coronary syndromes: implications for clinical practice from the GRACE registry.
  Fox KA, Anderson FA Jr, Goodman SG, et al.
  
  Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2008 Sep;5(9):580-9. Epub 2008 Jul 29.