Issue №5-20, 2021

Review article

Prevention of Thromboembolic Complications in Patients with Postphlebitic Lower Extremities Syndrome



1 ORCIDTatyana A. Knyazeva, 1 ORCIDMikhail V. Nikitin, 1 ORCIDTatayna I. Nikiforova

1 National Medical Research Center of Rehabilitation and Balneology, Moscow, Russian Federation


ABSTRACT

Prevention of venous thromboembolic complications (pulmonary embolism, stroke, deep vein thrombosis) remains the most important clinical medicine problem and affects all doctors’ professional expertise areas without exeption due to an extremely high potential risk to the health and life of patients that might cause thromboembolic complications. A worldwide trend is to use conservative methods of treatment and prevention of pulmonary embolism, stroke, deep vein thrombosis, which are most often limited to the use of compression treatment, periodic appointment of phlebotropic medications courses.

At the same time, effective and safe methods of using non-drug technologies for the prevention of thromboembolic complications in patients, in particular, with postphlebitic lower extremities syndrome, are in progress. They can prevent and/or significantly reduce the number of life-threatening complications and mortality with minimal risk of bleeding.

The article presents a review of the literature data using the Russian and foreign sources on the use of medicinal and non-medicinal,mechanical methods of medical rehabilitation and sanatorium-resort treatment of patients with preventive effect on the dangerous thromboembolic complications occurrence.


KEYWORDS: venous thromboembolic complications, phlebotropic drug therapy, anticoagulants, statins, non-drug therapeutic factors

Acknowledgments: The study had no sponsorship

Conflict of interest:: The authors declare no apparent or potential conflicts of interest related to the publication of this article.

For citation: Knyazeva T.A., Nikitin M.V., Nikiforova T.I. Prevention of Thromboembolic Complications in Patients with Postphlebitic Lower Extremities Syndrome. Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine. 2021; 20 (5): 19-25. https://doi.org/10.38025/2078-1962-2021-20-5-19-25

For correspondence: Tatayna I. Nikiforova, e-mail: nikidorova.tania@yandex.ru



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