Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Thrombosis

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for thrombosis.

Reviewed March 2012

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Title:   Antiepileptic drugs for the primary and secondary prevention of seizures after intracranial venous thrombosis (ICVT)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Use of antiepileptic drugs may prevent seizures after blood clots block a vein or venous sinus (venous thrombosis) in the brain, in the immediate phase and in the long term. There is currently, however, no evidence from randomised controlled trials to s...
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Blood thinners for the prevention of clots in patients with cancer undergoing surgery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with cancer undergoing surgical procedures are at an increased risk of blood clots. The blood thinner administered to prevent these clots can be either an unfractionated heparin or low molecular weight heparin. These two blood thinners may have...
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Protective treatment against blood clots in non-hospitalised cancer patients receiving chemotherapy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer patients are more likely than patients without cancer to develop blood clots in their veins (venous thromboembolism), either in the lungs (pulmonary embolism) or the deep venous system (deep vein thrombosis or DVT). Chemotherapy further increases...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Antithrombotic drugs to prevent further blood vessel blockage after bypass surgery using vein grafts obtained from the same person (autologous) or artificial grafts in the legs
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Lower limb atherosclerosis can lead to blocked blood vessels causing pain on walking (intermittent claudication) or, if more severe, pain at rest, ulceration and gangrene (critical limb ischaemia). Surgery to bypass the blockage uses either a piece of v...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Anticoagulation for cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Blood thinning (anticoagulant) drugs may be beneficial for patients with clotting of the veins that surround the brain (sinus thrombosis). Sinus thrombosis is a rare condition where blood clots form in the veins that drain blood from the brain. However,...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Bed rest in hospital for suspected impaired fetal growth
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Too little evidence from trials to show whether hospital bed rest for pregnant women has a beneficial effect on the unborn baby's growth. An unborn baby receiving too few nutrients can grow more slowly than expected in the womb (impaired fetal growth). ...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Antithrombotic therapy for improving maternal or infant health outcomes in women considered at risk of placental dysfunction
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, intrauterine fetal growth restriction and placental abruption are thought to be related to abnormalities in the development and function of the placenta. Treatment with heparin to prevent the ...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Umbilical artery catheters in the newborn: effects of heparin
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The umbilical artery catheters (tubes) (UACs) commonly used in neonatal intensive care to monitor babies can sometimes cause them problems. They can be placed in high or low positions, and come in different materials and designs. The blood anticoagulant...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Umbilical artery catheters in the newborn: effects of catheter design (end vs side hole)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Using umbilical artery catheters with the hole in the side instead of end leads to serious complications. The umbilical artery catheters (tubes) (UACs) commonly used in neonatal intensive care to monitor babies can sometimes cause them problems. They ca...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Umbilical artery catheters in the newborn: effects of position of the catheter tip
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   High positioning of umbilical artery catheters in babies in neonatal intensive care leads to fewer complications than low positioning. The umbilical artery catheters (tubes) (UACs) commonly used in neonatal intensive care to monitor babies, can sometime...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Umbilical artery catheters in the newborn: effects of catheter materials
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A catheter (tube) placed in one of the arteries located in the umbilical cord is commonly uses for monitoring blood pressure or drawing blood in sick newborn babies. There seems to be significant variation between neonatal intensive care units in exactl...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Anticoagulants compared with anti-inflammatory drugs or placebo for treating people who have venous blood clots
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A blood clot can block a venous blood vessel to cause what is known as a thromboembolism. This most often occurs in a leg (deep vein thrombosis) or in the lungs (pulmonary embolism), which can be fatal. Once formed, a blood clot in a leg can increase in...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Antiplatelet agents for preventing failure of peripheral arterial grafts
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Symptomatic peripheral arterial disease in people with atherosclerosis can present as intermittent claudication, disabling pain on walking, or as critical limb ischaemia with pain at rest, ulceration, gangrene and the risk of losing a leg. One treatment...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Heparins reduce the number of heart attacks but caused more minor bleeding after acute coronary syndromes compared to placebo
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Blood clots in the arteries leading to the heart can cause acute coronary syndromes: unstable angina (a feeling of tightness in the chest) or a type of heart attack (non-ST segment myocardial infarction - NSTEMI). Drugs that prevent clots from forming (...
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Infusion techniques for peripheral arterial thrombolysis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Clot busting drugs are effective at restoring blood flow in blocked leg arteries. Intravenous infusion (injection into veins) causes more haemorrhagic complications (risk of serious bleeding) than injection into arteries (arterial infusion). Acute reduc...
Date:   Feb 2006
Title:   Triflusal for preventing serious vascular events in people at high risk
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Triflusal is not clearly better than aspirin for preventing serious vascular events such as strokes, heart attacks and deaths from vascular disease. Triflusal and aspirin are drugs that prevent blood clots forming. When blood clots form in arteries and ...
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Thrombolytic agents for arterial and venous thromboses in neonates
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Major blood clots are infrequent, but serious complications that can occur in neonatal intensive care. Most often, blood clots are related to catheters (thin tubes inserted into the body), especially those inserted into the torso, for instance umbilical...
Date:   Nov 2004
Title:   Drugs to prevent the re-occurrence of narrowing of blood vessels in peripheral arterial disease after the damaged blood vessels have been widened surgically
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Peripheral arterial disease of leg arteries can progressively cause leg pain on walking, pain at rest, ulcers and gangrene because of reduced blood flow. An inflatable balloon catheter inserted into the artery is used to widen and unblock the affected a...
Date:   Oct 2004
Title:   A combination of graduated compression stockings and heparin seems to be the optimal prophylaxis for patients undergoing colorectal surgery.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients undergoing surgery of the large bowel and the rectum have a considerable risk of developing vascular complications expressed as venous thrombosis and/or thrombosis in the lungs (pulmonary embolism). These complications can lead to lifelong impa...
Date:   Aug 2003
Title:   Oral anticoagulation plus an antiplatelet drug is better than oral anticoagulants alone for reducing the risk of death or blood clots (thromboembolism) after heart valve replacement.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   After heart valve replacement oral anticoagulation (a blood thinner) is frequently used to keep blood clots from forming on the valve. These blood clots can block the flow of blood through the valve or break off and cause a stroke. Blood thinners, such ...
Date:   Jun 2003

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