Deep vein thrombosis causes
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Overview
The cause of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of a blood clot in the deep veins. Several factors predispose to DVT; however they are referred to as either risk factors or triggers. The word risk factors refers to those epidemiologic and genetic variables that expose someone to a higher risk of developing venous thrombosis. The word triggers refer to those factors in the patients immediate history or environment that may have lead to the occurrence of the venous thrombosis. Risk factors and triggers of DVT are discussed elsewhere.
Causes
Life Threatening Causes
Deep venous thrombosis can be a life-threatening condition if thromboembolism and subsequent pulmonary embolism occur, and it must be treated as such irrespective of the underlying cause.
Common Causes
Causes by Organ System
| Cardiovascular | No underlying causes |
| Chemical/Poisoning | No underlying causes |
| Dental | No underlying causes |
| Dermatologic | No underlying causes |
| Drug Side Effect | No underlying causes |
| Ear Nose Throat | No underlying causes |
| Endocrine | No underlying causes |
| Environmental | No underlying causes |
| Gastroenterologic | No underlying causes |
| Genetic | No underlying causes |
| Hematologic | No underlying causes |
| Iatrogenic | No underlying causes |
| Infectious Disease | No underlying causes |
| Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic | No underlying causes |
| Neurologic | No underlying causes |
| Nutritional/Metabolic | No underlying causes |
| Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
| Oncologic | No underlying causes |
| Ophthalmologic | No underlying causes |
| Overdose/Toxicity | No underlying causes |
| Psychiatric | No underlying causes |
| Pulmonary | No underlying causes |
| Renal/Electrolyte | No underlying causes |
| Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy | No underlying causes |
| Sexual | No underlying causes |
| Trauma | No underlying causes |
| Urologic | No underlying causes |
| Miscellaneous | No underlying causes |
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Antithrombin III deficiency
- Blood clot
- Cancer
- Clotting disorders
- Congestive heart failure
- Essential thrombocythemia
- Ethinylestradiol
- Factor V Leiden mutation
- Familial dysfibrinogenemia
- Fractures (especially of pelvis or leg)
- Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor
- Glucagonoma syndrome
- Hemorrhagic thrombocythemia
- Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Hyperhomocysteinemia
- Immobility
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Injury
- Lenalidomide
- Malignancy
- May-Thurner syndrome
- Multifocal fibrosclerosis
- Myeloproliferative disorders
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Oral contraceptives
- Paget-Schroetter disease
- Paraplegia
- Paraproteinemia
- Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Polycythemia vera
- Pregnancy
- Presence of a central venous catheter
- Protein C deficiency
- Protein S deficiency
- Prothrombin gene mutation G20210A
- Raloxifene
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Surgery (especially orthopedic or female pelvic surgery)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Tamoxifen
- Thalidomide
- Thrombosis
- Tranexamic acid
- Trauma
- Varicose veins
References
- ↑ Trabert J, Steiner T (2014). "[Deep vein thrombosis and lung embolisms in patients with stroke : Prevention and therapy.]". Nervenarzt. doi:10.1007/s00115-014-4031-9. PMID 25186081.