Yasuoka Shozo, Kubota Shunichiro
Yasuoka Clinic, Musashino City, Tokyo, Japan.
Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2011;7:125-7. doi: 10.2147/VHRM.S16949. Epub 2011 Mar 1.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and related pulmonary thromboembolism are life-threatening diseases that require efficient diagnosis and clinical management. While the diagnosis and treatment of VTE in hospitalized patients has been extensively studied, less has been reported on walk-in patients with VTE. Here we report on four outpatients with VTE that were efficiently diagnosed using the blood D-dimer test and successfully treated.