Original Article
Deep Vein Thrombosis after Total Knee Replacement
Western literature reports a very high incidence of deep vein thrombosis in its population especially after orthopaedic surgery. In total knee replacement without prophylaxis,...
Original Article
Deep Vein Thrombosis is Not Rare in Asia—The Singapore General Hospital Experience
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), the postphlebitic syndrome and recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) are important and often preventable causes of early morbidity...
Review Article
New Aspects of the Blood Coagulation Cascade, Anticoagulants and Vein Thrombosis in Asia
Injury to blood vessels triggers haemostasis, a process that has evolved to achieve two superficially incompatible outcomes: arresting blood loss while protecting vessel patency...
Original Article
The Acute Presentation of Pulmonary Thromboembolism: A Retrospective Viewpoint
Pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) has historically been considered a rarity in the Asian population. Although well studied in the West, Asian literature on this condition...
Review Article
Management of Thromboembolic Disease in Pregnancy
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) refers specifically to 2 related entities: deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism. The management of arterial thrombo-embolism, in particular that...
Others
Intermittent Epoprostenol Infusions in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Associated Pulmonary Hypertension—A Series of Three Cases
Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is seen in 0.5% to 14% of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and is associated with a grave prognosis. The overall...
Original Article
Thirty-day Mortality and Morbidity After Total Knee Arthroplasty
Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for patients with knee arthritis that is unresponsive to conservative treatment is being increasingly performed all over the world. It...
Original Article
Venous Thromboembolism at the National Healthcare Group, Singapore
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a potentially fatal disease which includes deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). About 30% of patients with VTE...
Original Article
Central Clot Score at Computed Tomography as a Predictor of 30-day Mortality after Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Multi-detector Computed Tomography (MDCT) pulmonary angiography is currently the method of choice for the detection of acute pulmonary embolism (PE), because of its convenience,...
Original Article
Heterogeneity of non-cystic-fibrosis bronchiectasis in multiethnic Singapore: A prospective cohort study at a tertiary pulmonology centre
Bronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease of significant morbidity and mortality. The pathological hallmarks of the disease are abnormal dilatation of airways resulting from...
Letter to the Editor
Pulmonary endarterectomy and balloon pulmonary angioplasty in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: The Singapore experience
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a pulmonary hypertension caused by mechanical obstruction of the pulmonary arteries by organised thrombi and microvascular arteriopathy. It...