Enrico Bernardi

TL;DR: The clinical course of a first episode of symptomatic deep venous thrombosis in a large consecutive series of patients who had long-term follow-up was assessed and the potential risk factors for these three outcomes were evaluated.

TL;DR: Possibility for improvement using the current paradigms of anticoagulation seem limited and new treatment strategies should be developed, as cancer patients with venous thrombosis are more likely to develop recurrent thromboembolic complications and major bleeding during anticoaggerant treatment than those without malignancy.

TL;DR: Besides unprovoked presentation, other factors independently associated with a statistically significant increased risk of recurrent VTE are thrombophilia, clinical presentation with primary DVT, shorter duration of anticoagulation, and increasing age.

TL;DR: A randomized, controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of below-knee compression elastic stockings in preventing the post-thrombotic syndrome in patients with a first episode of acute symptomatic proximal DVT.

TL;DR: There is an association between atherosclerotic disease and spontaneous venous thrombosis and the strength of this association did not change in a multivariate analysis that accounted for risk factors for atherosclerosis.