>Declan
>Generally when a patient says their mother/father or relly "had a DVT" it
is
>usually secret code for "spent 6 months on rat poison".
>I would only presume they would have had a venogram also.
>In any case venogram's are out now aren't they ?
>Jon
>
>Dr Jon Wilcox
>General Medicine, Paediatrics and Obstetrics,
>Glenfield Medical Centre,
>452 Glenfield Road,
>Auckland 1310, New Zealand
>Phone or Fax +649-444-7656
>e-mail [log in to unmask]
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Jon Wilcox <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 7:31 AM
>Subject: Re: Leiden factor
>
>
>><<On fuller history it turned out mum (ie. grandma!) had a DVT at age 14
>>years
>>and another after birth of first child>>
>>Only snag with that sort of history is that she very likely suffered the
>>clinical diagnosis of a DVT. I would be inclined to insist on venographic
>>evidence myself.
>>No venogram---no DVT!
>>
>>Declan
>>
>
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