One of the risk factors that is closely linked with mortality, due to thrombosis, is the increasing age of patients. Moreover, a follow-up study conducted by Heit et al. (1999) in Minnesota, 489 patients out of a total of 14,629 patients died from venous thrombosis. Out of the 489 patients that had died, there were 28 patients that suffered from only deep vein thrombosis while the remaining 461 suffered from pulmonary embolism, both with and without the presence of deep vein thrombosis. Furthermore, pulmonary embolism was considered as the underlying cause of death for 245
One of the risk factors that is closely linked with mortality, due to thrombosis, is the increasing age of patients. Moreover, a follow-up study conducted by Heit et al. (1999) in Minnesota, 489 patients out of a total of 14,629 patients died from venous thrombosis. Out of the 489 patients that had died, there were 28 patients that suffered from only deep vein thrombosis while the remaining 461 suffered from pulmonary embolism, both with and without the presence of deep vein thrombosis. Furthermore, pulmonary embolism was considered as the underlying cause of death for 245