You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 17, Issue 4
  • Women admitted to hospital during pregnancy have increased risk of venous thromboembolism that persists up to 28 days postdischarge

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Midwifery
Cohort study
Women admitted to hospital during pregnancy have increased risk of venous thromboembolism that persists up to 28 days postdischarge
  1. Saskia Middeldorp,
  2. Suzanne Mariëlla Bleker
  1. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  1. Correspondence to : Dr Saskia Middeldorp, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands; s.middeldorp{at}amc.uva.nl

https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2013-101706

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Commentary on: Abdul Sultan A, West J, Tata LJ, et al. Risk of first venous thromboembolism in pregnant women in hospital: population-based cohort study from England. BMJ 2013;437:f6099OpenUrl

    Implications for practice and research

    • In pregnant women, the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) increases substantially during admission to hospital for reasons other than delivery, and persists up to 28 days postdischarge.

    • In pregnant women admitted to hospital, thrombosis prophylaxis should be considered and its benefits weighed against the risks. Studies into the optimal prophylactic approach are needed.

    Context

    Pregnant women have a higher risk of VTE than non-pregnant women.1 VTE is the leading cause of maternal death in developed countries and many women develop post-thrombotic syndrome. In the general population, admission to hospital increases the risk of VTE by more than 100-fold. It …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.