**Meet the editor**

Gregory Cheng, MD, PhD is the deputy director of the Dr. Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation, Macau. He is the former head of division of Hematology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He earned his medical degree and PhD degree from the University of Toronto in 1978 and 1989 respectively. His clinical practice and research focus on immune thrombocytope-

nia, deep vein thrombosis, transfusion medicine and hematologic malignancies, such as acute and chronic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloproliferative disorders, lymphomas, and myeloma. His research has resulted in publications in peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Blood, and BMJ.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Risk Factors of Deep Vein Thrombosis 1**  Mustafa Sirlak, Mustafa Bahadir Inan, Demir Cetintas and Evren Ozcinar

Chapter 2 **Venous Stasis and Deep Vein Thrombosis** 

Chapter 4 **Endovascular Therapies in Acute DVT 59**  Jeff Tam and Jim Koukounaras

Chapter 6 **Emerging Issues in Deep Vein Thrombosis;** 

Chapter 7 **Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Cancer Patients 111**  Hikmat Abdel-Razeq

Chapter 8 **Deep Vein Thrombosis of the Arms 129** 

Peter Marschang

Chapter 5 **Radiological Imaging and Intervention in Venous Thrombosis 79**  Andrew Christie, Giles Roditi,

Mindaugas Kiudelis,

**Prevention in Laparoscopic Surgery 31** 

Dalia Adukauskienė and Rolandas Gerbutavičius

Ananthakrishnan Ganapathy and Chris Cadman

Farjah H. AlGahtani and Abdel Galil Abdel Gader

**(DVT) in Liver Disease and in Developing Countries 99** 

Chapter 3 **Vena Cava Malformations as an Emerging Etiologic Factor for Deep Vein Thrombosis in Young Patients 43**  Massimiliano Bianchi, Lorenzo Faggioni, Virna Zampa, Gina D'Errico, Paolo Marraccini and Carlo Bartolozzi
