In a broad study using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database, venous thromboembolism occurred in 1.44 percent of patients who had open surgery but in only 0.83 percent of those having a colorectal resection laparoscopically.
Other VTE risk factors among colorectal surgery patients in the national administrative database study included inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, obesity and congestive heart failure.
Read the Archives of Surgery report on colorectal surgery.
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