Varicose Veins and Spider Vein Issues In The News:
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Austrian researchers reported on Monday that close to a quarter of patients who have superficial blood clots on their legs might be at risk for more serious clots deep in their veins.
Varicose veins, oral contraceptives, injuries and cancer can all cause blood clots near the surface of the legs.
Although most cases are not serious, this common condition could be a sign for deep vein thrombosis, which is when blood clots block off the blood flow deep in the veins.
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can be deadly if the clots move to the lungs and cause a pulmonary embolism.
Dr. Barbara Binder of the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and colleagues studied 46 patients with superficial vein clots from November 2006 and June 2007.  All had a diagnostic imaging test and other lab tests.
The team found that 24 percent of the patients had deep vein thrombosis, even though most had no other symptoms.
DVT most often occurred with superficial clots in the lower leg.  It occurred in the same leg as the superficial clot in 73 percent of the patients.
“Our study … demonstrates that the risk of a concomitant DVT should not be underestimated,” Binder and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Dermatology.

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