Abstract
We investigated the preventive effect of elastic stocking on deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We enrolled 45 patients with ICH (age,; 70.4±10.5 yr; males, 20; females, 25), who were not found to have DVT by ultrasonography on admission. Although the patients admitted before January 2006 did not wear elastic stockings, those admitted after February 2006 who suffered from severe paralysis of a lower extremity did wear elastic stockings. We examined the presence or absence of DVT by ultrasonography at 2 weeks after the occurrence of ICH, and statistically investigated the relationship between the wearing of elastic stockings and the presence of DVT. The number of patients with elastic stockings was 15, and that without was 30. In total, we detected DVT in 13 patients at 2 weeks after the occurrence of ICH (28.9%). The frequency of DVT in patients with elastic stockings was not significantly decreased as compared to that without. No preventive effect of elastic stockings on DVT was observed in patients with consciousness disturbance, paralysis in a lower extremity, severe neurological deficit, large hematoma or without operation. It appears therefore that the wearing of elastic stockings does not prevent patients with ICH from developing DVT.
