Table 4.

Published studies of the incidence of DVT and PE after THA

Study	Number of THAs	Number of DVTs (%)	Number of PEs (%)
Dhillon et al. [9]	14	9 (64.3)*	0
Leizorovicz et al. [17]	408	4 (1.0)	0 (0)
Piovella et al. [25]	121	31 (25.6)*	UI
Bagaria et al. [2]	23	2 (8.6)*	UI
Leizorovicz [16]	134	1 (0.7)/22 (16.4)*	0 (0)
Current study	992	8 (0.8)	1 (0.1)

* Including asymptomatic DVT; THA = total hip arthroplasty; DVT = deep vein thrombosis; PE = pulmonary embolism; UI = unidentified.