Chapter FourVenous Disease Coalition

Clinical Presentations of VTE

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Symptoms of VTE

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• Leg swelling• Leg pain• Arm swelling or pain• SVC syndrome

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Symptoms of PE

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• Sudden shortness of breath

• Gradual shortness of breath

• Pleuritic chest pain

• Hemoptysis

• Unexplained fever• Presyncope• Hypotension/

shock• Cardiac

arrest/death

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