Arcelus, Juan Ignacio, Monreal, Manuel, Caprini, Joseph A, Guisado, Javier Gutiérrez, Soto, Maria José, Núñez, Manuel Jesús, Alvárez, Juan Carlos, Renseigné, Non, Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance (UMR 3192) (Lab-STICC), Université européenne de Bretagne - European University of Brittany (UEB)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois du Numérique et des Mathématiques (IBNM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Télécom Bretagne-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Asociación de Investigación y Desarrollo en la Industria del Mueble y Afines (AIDIMA), AIDIMA, DEPARTAMENTO DE QUIMICA ORGANICA, Universidad de Concepción [Chile], RIETE investigators, [Arcelus,JI] Departamento de Cirugía de la Universidad de Granada y Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain. [Monreal,M] Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain. [Caprini,JA] Department of Surgery, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois,USA. [Gutiérrez Guisado,J] Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Asepeyo Coslada, Madrid, Spain. [Soto,MJ] Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain. [Núñez,MJ] Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Comarcal de Salnés, Pontevedra, Spain.[Alvárez,JC] Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Virgen de Macarena, Sevilla, Spain., and The project has been partially supported by Red Respira from the Instituto Carlos III (RedRespira-ISCiii-RTIC-03/11). We express our gratitude to Sanofi-Aventis Spain for supporting this Registry with an unrestricted educational grant and the Registry Coordinating Center, S & H Medical Science Service, for their logistic and administrative support.
Comparative Study; Journal Article; Multicenter Study; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; There is little literature about the clinical presentation and time-course of postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) in different surgical procedures. RIETE is an ongoing, prospective registry of consecutive patients with objectively confirmed, symptomatic acute VTE. In this analysis, we analysed the baseline characteristics, thromboprophylaxis and therapeutic patterns, time-course, and three-month outcome of all patients with postoperative VTE. As of January 2006, there were 1,602 patients with postoperative VTE in RIETE: 393 (25%) after major orthopaedic surgery (145 elective hip arthroplasty, 126 knee arthroplasty, 122 hip fracture); 207 (13%) after cancer surgery; 1,002 (63%) after other procedures. The percentage of patients presenting with clinically overt pulmonary embolism (PE) (48%, 48%, and 50% respectively), the average time elapsed from surgery to VTE (22 +/- 16, 24 +/- 16, and 21 +/- 15 days, respectively), and the three-month incidence of fatal PE (1.3%, 1.4%, and 0.8%, respectively), fatal bleeding (0.8%, 1.0%, and 0.2%, respectively), or major bleeding (2.3%, 2.9%, and 2.8%, respectively) were similar in the three groups. However, the percentage of patients who had received thromboprophylaxis (96%, 76% and 52%, respectively), the duration of prophylaxis (17 +/- 9.6, 13 +/- 8.9, and 12 +/- 11 days, respectively) and the mean daily doses of low-molecular-weight heparin (4,252 +/- 1,016, 3,260 +/- 1,141, and 3,769 +/- 1,650 IU, respectively), were significantly lower in those undergoing cancer surgery or other procedures. In conclusion, the clinical presentation, time-course, and three-month outcome of VTE was similar among the different subgroups of patients, but the use of prophylaxis in patients undergoing cancer surgery or other procedures was suboptimal. Yes