Table 4.
Historical accounts of pulmonary embolism complicating upper extremity venous thrombosis.
| Cases, n | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Year | UEVT | PE | ET | Comments |
| Hughes22 | 1949 | 320 | 3 | 0 | |
| Barnett8 | 1951 | 300 | 1 | 1 | Violent swinging motion of the arm to spank a child |
| Aufses7 | 1954 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Unknown cause and no precipitating event |
| Inahara24 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Adams3 | 1971 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 19-year-old professional baseball player |
| Clagett14 | 1974 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Hypercoagulable patient; occurred following extrectory urography (2 risk factors) |
| Campbell13 | 1977 | 25 | 3 | 0 | Two patients with intimal injury, 1 with hypercoagulability |
| Weinberg48 | 1978 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Intravenous drug user with septic PE |
| Demeter17 | 1982 | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Harley21 | 1984 | 14 | 5 | 1 | Undocumented scenario |
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UEVT, upper extremity venous thrombosis; PE, pulmonary embolus; ET, effort thrombosis.