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All venous thrombosis clinical trials
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Treatments
Studied treatment |
fondaparinux 7.5 mg subcutaneously once daily for at least 5 days and until vitamin K antagonists induced an INR greater than 2.0.
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Control treatment |
enoxaparin, 1 mg/kg of body weight, subcutaneously twice daily for at least 5 days and until vitamin K antagonists induced an INR greater than 2.0.
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Patients
Patients |
patients with acute symptomatic deep venous thrombosis |
Inclusion criteria |
>18 years of age; acute symptomatic deep venous thrombosis
involving the popliteal, femoral, or iliac veins or the trifurcation
of the calf veins; requiring antithrombotic
therapy. Diagnostic criteria for
deep venous thrombosis were a noncompressible vein
found on ultrasonography or an intraluminal filling defect
found on venography |
Method and design
Randomized effectives |
1098 / 1107 (studied vs. control) |
Design |
Parallel groups |
Blinding |
double blind |
Follow-up duration |
3 months |
Number of centre |
154 |
Geographic area |
international |
Hypothesis |
Superiority |
Primary endpoint |
symptomatic recurrent venous thromboembolic |
Results
Endpoints and data reported in the trial's publication(s)
Endpoint |
Events (%) |
Relative Risk |
95% CI |
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Studied treat. |
Control treat. |
Recurrent venous thromboembolism During entire study |
43 / 1098 (3,9%) |
45 / 1107 (4,1%) |
0,96 |
[0,64;1,45] |
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Fatal pulmonary embolism |
5 / 1098 (0,5%) |
5 / 1107 (0,5%) |
1,01 |
[0,29;3,47] |
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Nonfatal pulmonary embolism |
20 / 1098 (1,8%) |
12 / 1107 (1,1%) |
1,68 |
[0,83;3,42] |
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Deep venous thrombosis |
18 / 1098 (1,6%) |
28 / 1107 (2,5%) |
0,65 |
[0,36;1,16] |
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n |
1091 / 1098 (99,4%) |
1101 / 1107 (99,5%) |
1,00 |
[0,99;1,01] |
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Major bleeding During initial treatment |
12 / 1098 (1,1%) |
13 / 1107 (1,2%) |
0,93 |
[0,43;2,03] |
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Major bleeding During entire study |
28 / 1098 (2,6%) |
26 / 1107 (2,3%) |
1,09 |
[0,64;1,84] |
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Clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding During initial treatment |
28 / 1098 (2,6%) |
33 / 1107 (3,0%) |
0,86 |
[0,52;1,41] |
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Clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding During entire study |
60 / 1098 (5,5%) |
63 / 1107 (5,7%) |
0,96 |
[0,68;1,35] |
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Reference(s)
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B�ller HR, Davidson BL, Decousus H, Gallus A, Gent M, Piovella F, Prins MH, Raskob G, Segers AE, Cariou R, Leeuwenkamp O, Lensing AW.
Fondaparinux or enoxaparin for the initial treatment of symptomatic deep venous thrombosis: a randomized trial..
Ann Intern Med 2004;140:867-73
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