**Meet the editor**

Dr. Ertugrul Okuyan was born in Hatay, Turkey, in 1973. He graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine in 1997, and obtained the title of Cardiology Specialist from the Istanbul University Institution of Cardiology in September 2003. He works at the Cardiology Clinic of the Istanbul Bagcilar Education and Research Hospital. His main areas of interest are heart

failure, atherosclerosis, pulmonary hypertension, venous and arterial thrombosis and arterial hypertension. Having been published in many highly ranked papers, Dr Okuyan is a member of the Turkish Cardiology Association, European Society of Cardiology, American Heart Association, European Atherosclerosis Society, American Society of Hypertension and European Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Aetiology of Venous Thrombosis 3** 

Chapter 2 **Venous Thrombosis in Behcet's Disease 43**  Selda Pelin Kartal Durmazlar

**and Venous Thrombosis 55** 

**Part 2 Management and Complications 77** 

**Children with Musculoskeletal Infection 69** 

Lawson A. B. Copley and Ngozi Okoro

**Treatments for Venous Thrombosis 79** 

**Thrombosis: Painful Swollen Extremities** 

**and Venous Thrombosis of the Eye 111** 

**Patients Using Oral Contraceptives 113** 

Procházková Jana and Hrbáč Tomáš

Procházka Václav, Procházka Martin, Ľubušký Marek,

Mehrez M. Jadaon

Chapter 3 **Antiphospholipıd Syndrome** 

Ertugrul Okuyan

Chapter 4 **Deep Venous Thrombosis in** 

Glenn W. Stambo

Chapter 6 **Late Complications of Deep Venous** 

**Part 3 Cerebral Venous Thrombosis** 

Chapter 7 **Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in** 

**and Non Healing Ulcers 91** 

Chapter 5 **Current Endovascular** 

Daniel Link

**Part 1 Etiology 1** 
