This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

March 14, 2011 — Anticoagulation therapy should be started promptly for upper extremity deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), according to a clinical practice review of upper extremity DVT published in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For patients with deep vein thrombosis, mortality rates and the prevalence of hemodynamically unstable pulmonary embolism are significantly higher when the upper extremities are ...

THE term "varicose veins" customarily suggests, immediately, and almost exclusively, abnormal dilatations and tortuosities of the saphenous veins of the lower extremity. If one then stops to reflect ...

A 79-year-old man presented after a week of pleuritic-type chest pain, dyspnea and a swollen, painful left arm. His past medical history included benign prostatic hypertrophy, vitiligo, hearing loss ...

A 45-year-old woman presented to her family doctor following a three-day history of acute-onset, progressive swelling and sensation of heaviness in her left upper extremity. In addition, she described ...

Victor Wembanyama, a San Antonio Spurs All-Star, was diagnosed with a rare type of shoulder blood clot that is more common in elite athletes. This kind of clot, called upper extremity deep vein ...