Identifying patients at increased risk for recurrent venous thromboembolism: Clinical, biochemical, and radiologic risk factors

Venous thromboembolism is a common vascular disease that presents clinically as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or both conditions. Once patients are diagnosed with this disease and anticoagulant therapy is initiated, the main objective is to prevent recurrent thromboembolism. Identifying patients who are at increased risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism is clinically relevant because recurrent disease is associated with …