Pulmonary Embolism

In the double-blind EPCAT III RCT, aspirin alone was noninferior to 5 days of rivaroxaban followed by aspirin for preventing symptomatic VTE after total hip or knee arthroplasty, with no clinically relevant...

In intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism, catheter-directed fibrinolysis lowered early clinical deterioration vs anticoagulation alone.

Patients who used statins for at least 4 weeks prior to total hip arthroplasty experienced significantly lower rates of venous thromboembolism within 90 days postoperatively. No significant differences were...