Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis After Spinal Cord Injury: A Prospective Study in 37 Consecutive Patients With Traumatic or Nontraumatic Spinal Cord Injury Treated by Mechanical Prophylaxis

Abstract

The incidence of DVT in patients with SCI routinely given mechanical prophylaxis without anticoagulation was higher when compared with those reported in the setting of routine pharmaco-prophylaxis. Anticoagulation should not be excluded from initial DVT prophylaxis measures in the SCI patients unless there is any ongoing bleeding or severe coagulopathy. Further studies will be necessary to get a more precise data and to understand the clinical relevance of these results.