Venous Thrombus Research Paper

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a single disease affecting the venous circulation. It has two distinct presentations of condition that are the deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and the pulmonary embolism (PE) [1]. The DVT condition commonly occurs in the deep vein of the lower limb or pelvis. Figure 1.1 shows the structure of vein at the lower limb. Furthermore, it can also develop anywhere in the body, such as the veins in the arm, abdomen, or around the brain.A blood clot that forms in the arteries is differed from the blood clots that form in the vein. The reason is that the blood clot in the arteries leads to strokes, transient ischemic attack (TIA or mini-stroke), heart attack, or peripheral arterial clot and gangrene which is the death of body …show more content…
If the pieces of blood clots reaches the lung, it can cause pulmonary embolism by blocking one of the pulmonary arteries. Figure 1.3 shows the flow of the break off of the blood clots and travel through the vein to the lung. As previously mentioned, pulmonary embolism is a fatal condition as soon as it occurs on someone. The risk factors of the deep vein thrombosis condition had been discussed gradually. The most common risk factors that had been discussed include the long haul flights, pregnancy, the influence of the age, from operative thrombosis, obesity and etc. [8, 9]. Those factors mentioned are from part of the risky condition that leads to the development of deep vein thrombosis condition. Moreover, the dramatic increase in any of the constituent of the blood composition can cause increment to the viscosity and decrease the blood flow in the vessels. The main causes here can be stated that the hypercoagulability that may be due from the acquired thrombophilic defects. Above all, obesity is also a risk factor for VTE in a case control study in Netherlands [10] and in a cohort study from the US National Hospital Discharge Survey