A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching
Pulmonary embolus (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are diagnoses that are commonly made in the emergency department. Well known risk factors for thromboembolic events include immobility, malignancy, pregnancy, surgery, and acquired or inherited thrombophilias, obesity, cigarette smoking, and hypertensi...
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| author | Alan Lucerna James Espinosa Lindsey Ackley Philip Carhart Douglas Stranges Risha Hertz |
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| description | Pulmonary embolus (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are diagnoses that are commonly made in the emergency department. Well known risk factors for thromboembolic events include immobility, malignancy, pregnancy, surgery, and acquired or inherited thrombophilias, obesity, cigarette smoking, and hypertension. We present a case of a 59-year-old female who watched TV and developed leg swelling and was found to have PE and DVT. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2bcca294c19046d9afdc957b964fbe8e2025-02-03T06:07:25ZengWileyCase Reports in Pulmonology2090-68462090-68542017-01-01201710.1155/2017/93476939347693A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television WatchingAlan Lucerna0James Espinosa1Lindsey Ackley2Philip Carhart3Douglas Stranges4Risha Hertz5Emergency Department, Rowan University SOM, Kennedy University Hospital, Stratford, NJ 08084, USAEmergency Department, Rowan University SOM, Kennedy University Hospital, Stratford, NJ 08084, USAEmergency Department, Kennedy University Hospital, Stratford, NJ 08084, USAEmergency Department, Kennedy University Hospital, Stratford, NJ 08084, USAEmergency Department, Rowan University SOM, Kennedy University Hospital, Stratford, NJ 08084, USAUniversity of Pennsylvania Health System, Penn Medicine, Gibbsboro, NJ, USAPulmonary embolus (PE) and deep vein thrombosis are diagnoses that are commonly made in the emergency department. Well known risk factors for thromboembolic events include immobility, malignancy, pregnancy, surgery, and acquired or inherited thrombophilias, obesity, cigarette smoking, and hypertension. We present a case of a 59-year-old female who watched TV and developed leg swelling and was found to have PE and DVT.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9347693 |
| spellingShingle | Alan Lucerna James Espinosa Lindsey Ackley Philip Carhart Douglas Stranges Risha Hertz A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching Case Reports in Pulmonology |
| title | A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching |
| title_full | A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching |
| title_fullStr | A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching |
| title_short | A Case Report on VT from TV: DVT and PE from Prolonged Television Watching |
| title_sort | case report on vt from tv dvt and pe from prolonged television watching |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9347693 |
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