Thromboembolic findings in patients with heart failure at autopsy.

Isabella Sales de Macedo,Layara Fernanda Lipari Dinardi,Thiago Vicente Pereira,Lyna Kyria Rodrigues de Almeida,Thaisa Silveira Barbosa,Luiz Alberto Benvenuti,Silvia Moreira Ayub-Ferreira,Edimar Alcides Bocchi,Victor Sarli Issa

Cardiovascular Pathology（2018）

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Abstract

•Patients with heart failure have a high frequency of thromboembolic events (39.2%) at autopsy.•Many patients had more than a single event (1.6 events per patient).•Thromboembolic events were frequently associated with the death process (67.1% of the cases).•Female sex (OR 1.511) and Chagas etiology (OR 2.362) were independent risk factors for the occurrence of thromboembolisms.

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Heart failure,Cardiomyopathy,Autopsy,Necropsy

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