• Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the Fifth People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, Sichuan 610000, P. R. China;
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Objective To summarize the experience of treating lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) after repair of inguinal hernia. Method The clinical data of 1 812 patients who underwent herniorrhaphy from January 2002 to December 2012 were reviewed, and we analyzed such data as age, gender, and the formation of DVT. Results Five of them suffered from DVT (0.28%), including 2 cases involving both lower extremities, 1 right and 2 left extremity. All of them were discharged from hospital by anticoagulant therapy and there was no pulmonary embolism and death case. DVT recovered well in 4 cases half a year after being discharged from the hospital. One had a sequela of recurrent swelling of the left lower extremity. Conclusions Reasonable precautions and treatment against DVT are very important even though DVT rate after inguinal hernia repair is low.

Citation: WANGMeng-qiao. The Treatment of Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis after Repair of Inguinal Hernia. West China Medical Journal, 2015, 30(6): 1074-1077. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.20150308 Copy

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