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Deep Vein Thrombosis in Pregnancy: Risk Factors, Diagnosis and Anticoagulant Treatment

A short midwifery summary of DVT in pregnancy and the puerperium: why pregnancy is a risk factor under Virchow's triad of hypercoagulability, venous stasis and vascular damage, the conditions that add to it, the swollen painful leg and its diagnosis by ultrasound, and treatment with low molecular weight heparin, which crosses neither the placenta nor into breast milk.

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